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> How do you get seven times? I asked chatgpt what the average consumption of a car is; the answer was 0.5-1 gallon on a highway.
by entropie 2y ago
> How do you get seven times?
I asked chatgpt what the average consumption of a car is; the answer was 0.5-1 gallon on a highway.
- FabHK 2y agoDon't confuse gallons per hour with gallons per mile.
- entropie 2y agoI think I did not. https://i.imgur.com/4Ik69ki.png https://i.imgur.com/4Ik69ki.png
- FabHK 2y agoTrue. Next, don't forget that airplanes cover about 3x the distance as cars per hour. So, per mile they are on par with bad cars, and about 2x normal cars.
- entropie 2y ago> Cruise Speed 148 KTAS is equivalent to approximately 170 mph or 275 km/h. if the consumption is 7 times as high (very conservative calculation) and the speed is about twice as high, we are still at a modifier of 3.5. right? Too much for me. We should be aiming for the absolute minimisation of fossil fuels.
- FabHK 2y agoSpeed is thrice, thus modifier = 2, or so. Look, this is peanuts compared to everyday consumption by the world. > We should be aiming for the absolute minimisation of fossil fuels. Should we? We could easily do that. Just stop cars and busses and trains and planes and heating and the production of medicine and everything else. Oh, our life would be much worse. As a matter of fact, we should not aim for "the absolute minimisation of fossil fuels". Not at all. It is dispiriting for me to learn that you believe such primitive nonsense. Seriously, you need to learn the basics of economics and trade-offs and all that.