Why can they not just use the school buses to create a simple very basic bus based public transit system?
MrMakabar
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When you have the buses as batteries, they can not be used as buses. Most places use buses as a general public transport network and not just for school children. Hence they run through the entire day and need to be recharged over night. Students then just use the general public transport to go to school.
This is not a genius idea, but a waste of resources.
Two things:
- This is the future and that means we can change it today. In this case with new better laws
- Falling emissions means weaker fossil fuel industry and stronger green industry. Hence lobbying can be turned around.
Not the case right now. Looking at the poles it is nearly 50:50 between Trump and Harris right now, with the momentum on Harris site.
This is really it. We already have most of the technology and at a price point, where it is either already cheaper then fossil fuels or not that much more expensive. The more those technologies are adopted, the less fossil fuels are being sold. A lot of people underestimate how much money building pipelines, refineries, power plants, oil rigs and so forth costs. So pretty small changes in fossil fuel consumption can destroy the massive profit margin of those companies. Even worse once those structural changes are made, we are truly over peak fossil fuel. Obviously this has to be global, but just look at what happened with Covid and you can see the massive impact these changes can have for the fossil fuel industry.
Honestly probably not. At least not in a big enough way, as to actually meet somewhat reasonable climate targets. However Biden actually passed some pretty decent laws and just keeping them on the book is going to help a lot. Trump already promised to remove all of them. According to an analysis of CarbonBrief just keeping Bidens laws, compared to Trump would look like this:
If Harris can be brought to pass some decent climate laws, which given her record is certainly possible, then the US might actually reach its way too low climate targets. Obviously state and municipality level changes also can improve it too. However that work has to be done by activists. With Trump there will be no pro climate policy on a federal level at all.
A few things. First of all the dolphins for the house boats need to be much taller. When you have flooding they have to be above the waterline to have the house boats not float about and so nobody rams them, which would be bad for the boat.
Amphibious public transport is not that great of a solution. Boats can be easily larger then a bus and with proper waterways, which a city would have. In terms of capacity a fairly small boat can easily carry as many passengers as a tram. They also are more efficent without wheels in water. Also you have a problem with doors and other parts which need to be opened often on a bus, since those nearly have to be under the waterline. That also is somewhat true for the ropeway. A ferry connection would be just as fast and can have the same capacity. So a ferry elevate rail interchange might be better.
How are transport emissions not part of the EUs emissions trading scheme? ETS2 covers road transport, buildings and many small industry emitters, not covered by ETS already. The original ETS already includes air travel.
However going for 65% emissions reduction would certainly be a good move.
Thanks. Fixed the original comment.
Actually that is capacity and not the electricity the actually produce. In 2021 Drax produced 4.2TWh of electricity. In 2021 Ratcliff produced 0.8TWh
So we are talking 5times more electricity from Drax. Hence 4x emissions is not as bad as it seems. I can not find 2023 numbers and I could imagine that they are even starker.
EDIT: Fix because I can not read properly apparently.
Actually it is even worse then that. Trump has called Netanyahu to ask him to keep the genocide going, so Harris looses the election. HE is openly calling for Israel to finish the problem. Biden for all his faults in this, has actually send aid to Gaza and has been at least rhetorically pushed for a ceasefire.
First of all grid scale batteries are 10x cheaper then you think they are at $300/kWh. Then they are competing with peaking gas power plants. those are inefficent, but can start up and shut down quickly. However the cost of those is at about $151–198/MWh. per kWh.. So you need 2000 charge cycles to break even. Batteries also last a lot longer then that up to 10,000 cycles under optimal conditions.