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A week of shame on our roads as 24 die in one week.
NZTA estimate now that each life lost on our roads costs our economy $4.5 million Dollars. So 24×4.5 is = $1012 million; – so save money and build rail for our safety government.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12219459
Best bring back rail transport, as the roads are gridlocked with trucks so put funding into rail now and let the truckers pay for wrecking the roads themselves instead of us subsidising their industry as we get nothing but deaths from them.
Government bring back all regional passenger services.
Save our lives again.
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How ‘green’ are EVs? It appears that electric vehicles are not the best solution to reduce CO2 emissions, as much CO2 is used in manufacturing the vehicle and battery, also loading batteries (particularly where electricity may have been generated from fossil fuels).
No matter what, CO2 will still be essential to produce such cars, trucks and so forth, and while CO2 emissions may be reduced, they will not be got rid of:
https://www.dw.com/cda/en/how-eco-friendly-are-electric-cars/a-19441437
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-car-emissions
It all boils down to the major challenge for the future, where will the ‘clean’ energy come from, that we need. Remember, also wind generators, solar panels and other infrastructure will still need fossil fuels to manufacture them.
And nuclear power will have the unresolved end waste storage issue.
Meanwhile few seem to do much to bring about needed change.
We continue living in the fossil age, also mentally.
Yes marc you are correct in all things here,
The ‘elephant we call it in the room’ is;
What do each modem of transport use;
*in energy use.
*disposable items,
*energy use to carry each tonne each km. – along the route they take, road/rail air or sea.
As to the land options we have either road freight or rail freight.
Trucks use high amounts of oil products and dispose of at least 18 to 34 tyres every two months and they therefore dump high levels of oil composites.
Rail uses only steel wheels and low friction drag along a steel rail line.
Trucks have rough road surfaces that rapidly wear out every tyre as they travel.
So we look at trucks as the most ‘dirty of all land transport options’ as those tyres are made from oil distillates.
They are toxic with emissions of tyre dust that always wash off the roads into our waterways, – that cause cancer and nervous system damage to every animal and human as the components of styrene and 1,3, butadiene are known toxic agents.
Rail uses low energy per km carrying each tonne each km, because of the low friction component of steel wheels on steel tracks, and add an electric locomotive to the equation and we have the best available option on land transport.
Batteries are becoming less likely to be often replaced due to the future known technologies found during the tesla project.
My son install tesla battery backup systems now on homes and farms and they have a extended life now of 8 to 10 yrs he advises me.
previous batteries only had a 3 to 5 yr life span.
Society deems third world living standards to be immoral so living standards have to remain stable to rising even if population desensities have to give.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2019/04/auckland-professor-says-kiwis-should-quit-air-travel-to-protect-the-environment.html
Auckland professor says Kiwis should quit air travel to protect the environment
• 07/04/2019
A grassroots movement calling for Kiwis to stay firmly on the ground is taking flight. Credits: Video – Newshub Image – Getty
A grassroots movement calling for Kiwis to stay firmly on the ground is taking flight.
It’s asking everyday travellers to keep out of the skies in a bid to protect the environment.
Auckland physicist Professor Shaun Hendy decided to give up air travel for a year to limit his carbon footprint.
“It was adding up the carbon emissions that I was responsible for,” he told Newshub. “I was about three times the average Kiwi as an academic travelling to conferences.”
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He documented his travels along the way, from stormy drama on the Cook Strait ferry to a bus trip through Bulls on his way home from Wellington.
“Lovely trip, it does take a day so you’ve got to commit to it.”
The cost of flying is going down, but the cost to the environment is becoming much clearer.
If you fly the 496km between Auckland and Wellington, you emit around 150kg of carbon dioxide equivalent. A medium-sized car making the same journey emits about a third less, while a bus, train and electric car all have significantly lower emissions – just under 55kg between all three of them.
Air travel is vital to the country’s trade, investment and tourism, and new technology is making it more efficient. But there’s no disputing the boom in air travel is having an impact on climate.
“Per kilometre, flying in a plane puts out more carbon dioxide than pretty much every other form of travel,” Victoria University climate scientist James Renwick said.
Stats NZ data shows New Zealand residents took more than 3 million flights in 2018. One Auckland passenger flew 639,000km – the equivalent of 15 circuits around the Earth.
But if you’re not ready to swap the skies for the roads yet, there are some alternatives.
Both Air New Zealand and Jetstar have a carbon buyback scheme in which travellers pay a small fee to offset the emissions generated by their ticket.
Aviation commentator Irene King said it’s a positive step, but the airlines and manufacturers need to make greener planes.
“It’s supply and demand, and we know the fuel prices will go up, and so there’s massive incentive toward greater engine efficiency.”
If the movement takes off, flying from one location to the other could soon be as frowned upon as using plastic bags.
Newshub.
All this bullshit about, just to provoke you a little bit more is just superstitious logic. Y’know this ecological bullshit is pure ideology like asking people if they recycled all the plastics and put all the glass aside — this is to make us feel good and this is the genius of ideology in action, translating a social action while restructuring the economy into personal responsibility.
This is ideology at its purest. So criticise a big company and then an idiot comes along and says “yeah it’s easy to criticise BUT what did you do? Did you put all the recycling and plastics one side and bottles to the other side?” And if you do it, the main function is to make you feel good. That’s the main function, it’s ideology at its purest.
I don’t know how it is now but I remember 5 or so years ago that when ever you fly into Auckland Airport there would be big posters about Clean Green and we are ecologically conscious and 2 cents of every dollar will go to saving the Maui Dolphins (that could have been Greenpeace, donations drives hit airports hard in my experience) and to save this and to save that — this is the most ingenious ideology.
The divid in operation is the idea that we are consumerist and then the Angel on our shoulder is whispering oh, but we should take care that we are not just consumerists and also take care of Mother Earth and society. Auckland airport is offering a wonderful solution which is we will include in the price of your airfares which is the price of your consumerism / commodity, will also include the price of your social duty. So pay 20 cents extra for a bus ticket and you will also do your duty to society.
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