Whatever makes you sleep at night bud

  • Synapse@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Where I live, gas is 2.28€/L, that’s about $11.80/gallon, still people rather drive their car to work every day instead of riding the 2000€ eBike collecting dust in their garage, and they are 5km (3.1mi) away from work. I would argue has price is not expensive enough for them.

    On the other hand, the student we have on part time, rides the train 2 hours to come, because it’s too expensive for him to tank up his motorcycle.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Technically he isn’t wrong, but not for the reasons he thinks. Gas prices are subsidized significantly. And if they weren’t, people sure wouldn’t drive as much. Unsubsidized it would be between 10 and 15 per gallon. So if 2 to 4 is double, that would mean it would now be 20 to 30. So like a dollar a mile in his math.

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    17 hours ago

    Petrol is super cheap, because the only thing you can really do with it is burn it for energy.

    That and you waste 60-90 percent of that energy potential as heat.

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        12 hours ago

        That is exactly what we are doing in the upper end of that efficiency range (turbochargers, turbine generators, heater cores) - the waste heat from that is unharvestable (exhaust gas, engine core heat).

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          10 hours ago

          Yea, combined cycle gas turbine power plants are pushing above 60% efficiency. They use the waste heat from the turbine exhaust to generate steam and then extract energy from there. About as good as it gets.

          Cars could be a lot better if emissions wasn’t a concern.

  • ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world
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    18 hours ago

    The focus on golf clubs tells me exactly the type of person this is. Also, my bike will transport my wife and clubs for a lot longer than 30 minutes on cheap Ramen lunch.

    That is If I had golf clubs…

    Or a bike…

    And my wife may have left me…

    Now I’m hungry for noodles.

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      21 hours ago

      They say DMT feela like loading the Universe into the cannon and shooting yourself with it.

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        20 hours ago

        DMT is IMO not a “recreational” drug. The few times I’ve done it, it was a shitload of mental and emotional work to keep up with. Definitely alternate realities though – LSD lets you wander into otherworldly thoughts; Psilocybin lets you visualize them vividly; DMT slams them into your sensory apparatus like a brick wrapped in lemon

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          6 hours ago

          I have know idea, that’s just what people say. I can see why that would not be recreational.

  • cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    EV charging stations should start putting up gas station style boards showing the current price per kWh. Not that a kWh of electrons gets you as far as a gallon of gas, but a substantial chunk of the population will see the smaller number and start thinking about switching.

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      19 hours ago

      I mean even then it is way cheaper compared to gasoline. Around me, EV stations charge ~$0.50/kwh (give or take) and gas is ~$4.50/gal. Assuming 5 mi/kwh and 25 mpg, that comes out to $0.10/mi on electric and $0.18/mi on gas. So in “gas prices”, EVs cost ~$2.50/gal and that’s assuming you don’t do most of your charging at home, which takes it down to ~$0.08/kwh around me ($0.016/mi or $0.40/gal equivalent).

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        17 hours ago

        EVs get around 3-4 mi/kwh. Still better than gas by a little bit, but intentionally close to price matching.

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      16 hours ago

      The conversion for eMPG (which yes, is possibly the most cursed of units) is ~33 kwh equals a gallon. My PNW home electricity prices are pretty low, but that puts an eGallon at ~$2.97.

      If anything I think that number is misleadingly high, but that’s part of why it’s possibly the most cursed unit.