• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    It’s feels very absurd to see that electric car could be almost twice as efficient with co^2 emissions than vegan riding bicycle, especially considering moving the vehicle 18 times as heavy (driver included).

    Would be interesting to see the data used, but looks like the source sheets have been deleted:(

    I’d imagine optimizing the bike and rider’s physique and diet would likely affect the results dramatically. Dutch style grandma bike is hella lot less efficient than a commuter built for higher speeds, and a rider with more time in the saddle in long term is going to be more efficient on it than a (irr/)regular commuter

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      15 hours ago

      You’re making so many assumptions about the diet and equipment used by your statistically significant cyclist that it’s almost cherry-picking, my dude. You realize that, right?

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        15 hours ago

        Yeah, that was literally a cherry picking example, showing that in ideal situation, something a person could in theory work for, could be a lot better than the given numbers suggested.

        This was all based on assumptions because there was no data available anymore used for that mini study, just laying out thoughts there for my own amusement.

        • mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          14 hours ago

          Definitely a ton if variability in what you’d actually put out depending on bike type, speeds, diet etc