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Couple issues with that comparison: 15k seemed low given I drive ~10k a year and I don't work a job that uses my car, so I checked refuse trucks drive on averag
by rtkwe 2y ago
Couple issues with that comparison: 15k seemed low given I drive ~10k a year and I don't work a job that uses my car, so I checked refuse trucks drive on average more like 25k miles per year and there are many servicing a single dump. Also most garbage trucks are still diesel so you've got to 5-10x that power usage number and there's all the vehicles used to compact and move the trash once it reaches the landfill which are also (currently) pretty exclusively diesel powered (think bulldozers and soil compactors with some excavators thrown in).
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10309 https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10309
- bluGill 2y agoThe point is this is free energy - all of the energy sent to the trucks is going to be done either way.
- marcosdumay 2y agoSo, you use more of that "enough energy to power them for an ear" that your power plant is outputting every hour. There are plenty of hours in an year. You won't get any meaningful problem by complaining about the OP's approximations.