br3d

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[–] br3d -4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How surprising - an artificially subsidised industry wants more subsidy

[–] br3d 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

"can be" is doing some heavy lifting here. I confidently predict the amount actually recycled is a fraction of one percent

[–] br3d 45 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It would make a lot more sense if humans could just lay some sort of egg sac which we could keep in the garage for 9 months until it hatches. I honestly don't know why biologists and geneticists haven't dealt with this by now

[–] br3d 4 points 7 months ago

You keep seeing them but they aren't visible?

[–] br3d 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

3 dB is a doubling/having of sound pressure, so 3.5 is not nothing

[–] br3d 51 points 7 months ago (3 children)

These things only become meaningful when you look at emissions per capita AND remember that China manufactures large amounts of the world's stuff. All your iPhone emissions count as China's because it was manufactured there, but they really belong to your country. Same for loads of other stuff. Careful you don't fall for the tenor of this article, because it's probably intended to distract you ("Why should I bother when China is really bad?") and keep you consuming

[–] br3d 55 points 7 months ago (17 children)

Important to know that real-world testing shows that PHEVs are rarely plugged in and just burn oil much of the time

[–] br3d 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Except people don't plug in their hybrids and run them on fossil fuels. Hybrids are yet another way the FF industry keeps itself going while pretending things are being fixed

[–] br3d 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

People need to hire vehicles occasionally rather than buy more polluting vehicles against some rare edge case

[–] br3d 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If anyone finds themselves in this position, you should ignore everything else and just look at the ERTO size, which should be on the tyre itself. This is a standard way of measuring tyres and wheels, and is much better than the old ways

[–] br3d 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Here's a really good analysis of how it's not true the Boomers have all the money - there are lots of very comfortable Millennials too. It's more complicated than people like to think

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