l'll speak up for airplanes, or at least airliners in particular. I concede the point they mostly burn non-renewable fuels, but they make excellent use of the resources. Rhetorically speaking, one can cross half the planet in half a day, for not much money, in a mode of transport that is the safest on the planet (typically an order of magnitude safer than cars as I recall).
Although don't forget that "for not much money" is partly because air travel is so subsidised. Fuel tends to be largely untaxed, even though fuel taxes on other modes don't really cover the externalities
In terms of fuel per passenger unit of distance, air travel is very efficient, the reason why there are so many emissions is the amount of distance you can travel.
Fuel makes up a significant amount of the aircraft's weight at takeoff on long haul flights.
aerial transport is justified for intercontinental transport, but shouldnt be adopted when land travel is possible
Especially on middle-distance routes where land transport would be faster (considering that airports can't be downtown like train stations can be, the delays associated with airport security, etc.) if the rail infrastructure were decent.
If I recall correctly, aren't high speed trains the safest? At the very least, I recall that the Shinkansen has never had a single safety incident in its entire history, and as for the TGV, there have been a few derailments and a terrorist attack.
Yeah, but there's a lot more airports around.
Yeah, that's why I put them in lawful. If we can get them to be more sustainable (maybe green hydrogen fuel), then they'd basically just be super fast and super safe sky buses, whereas they're currently extremely polluting sky buses.
We should switch to more coscentious standards. Air travel is a commodity. We must avoid it as much as possible.
TIL Kapwing is evil
What's a Kapwing?
It's a website that you can use to edit images (e.g. memes). It adds a watermark to the bottom right of images when saving them
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I want a GO train. (I'm in the California Central Valley)
yea man, i was wondnering too. trains are the least harmful, even the most polluting ones, the amount of torque they deliver for the amound of fuel consumed ratio is just beyond consideration
Torque doesn't move things, power does.
No buses in this post? I'd place them under chaotic neutral
Arguing against the lawful good because while all that vegetation is great for pictures the only thought in my mind seeing that is 'fire'.
They're trams in the city, so relatively slow. Live and maintained vegetation has too much water to burn: boiling away the water takes more energy than the fuel provides.
It's probably also got those pop-up sprinklers, so if a fire does happen, you just turn on the water.
Covering a city in tram lines and sprinkler systems so you can keep up a fairy tale aesthetic with more grass isn't practical. Just do gravel like the train lines and accept that keeping it pretty would be an irresponsible use of water in our increasingly frequent droughts.
It completely depends on the region, though. The grassy tram pic is from Helsinki, which is a plenty moist region that I think is generally predicted to get more rain with climate change. Sustainable urban design should be tailored to the context.
That vegetation is pretty green and not primed for a fire.
Plus we already have cars with tanks full of gasoline driving near green areas in cities.
Near but not over and that picture is of an ideal scenario, not a realistic one even if we ignore climate change.
Well if this helps instead, people park on their yards every day with hot exhausts and catalytic converters. And some of us with old gravel driveways have a little grass right where we’re actually supposed to park, lol.
But yeah you’re right that when they decided to make that route so nice and green, they signed up for regular maintenance!
My driveway is asphalt and it still has a little bit of grass in the area you're supposed to park.
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