Comment on Anon takes the horsepill

• babybus@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s your source?

  A bull.

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s been a while, but I believe this video was where I heard it. From memory (I’m out right now and can’t rewatch to verify) it was specifically the per-kilometre carbon emissions, not taking into account manufacturing costs.

  Obviously there’s some fuziness depending on your diet and the power source used for charging. A vegan who would be charging in a coal-powered grid is going to look better, relatively speaking, for an analogue bike than someone who eats multiple kilos of red meat every week who has solar panels.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not vegan, but I largely replaced by cycling calories w/ oats when I biked to work for a few years, and my area is largely powered by coal and natural gas (not sure on the exact ratio). I haven’t done the math, but I’m guessing I would come out ahead of an electric bike, especially if we included manufacturing and shipping costs for the motor and battery.

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You are the horse.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’ll take that as a compliment.

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