https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport

that table is thoroughly fascinating. i mean all of them, there’s more than one table on that article

apparently walking is the most energy-efficient transport mode of all?!?!? apart from bicycles

what i find mind-blowing is that airplanes consume approximately the same amount of energy as cars and trains. I mean i can easily see cars and trains being on the same level, but i always thought that airplanes consumed like an order of magnitude more fuel than cars. considering how everybody keeps saying that “airplanes consume so much fuel” and such. crazy.

and also boats are less efficient than i thought? boats consume 16 L/100 km while cars, trains and airplanes consume 6 L/100 km?

  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    4 days ago

    That always sounded to me like a chicken-egg problem. People don’t use buses and subways, because buses and subways are populated by weird dirty hobos. Well guess what…

      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        4 days ago

        Oh suuuure. Except maybe you haven’t noticed, but I can read English, and peruse US-dominated social media. In the threads on mass transit it’s always “truly these are complex and multifaceted problems”, and then outside that thread it’s “I had to use subway today with all the masturbating weirdos like a peasant”.

        • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
          14·
          4 days ago

          They are just not related. The crazies on the street are not disappearing if people all decide to use transit. How is that a chicken and egg problem?

          • SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            72·
            4 days ago

            Explain then how it is that there are no dirty smelly masturbating crazies on buses and subways in my country.

            Crazies hang out doing crazy stuff in spaces that are conducive to such behavior. If normal people ride public transport because it’s expected that public transport accommodates normal people, then crazy behavior isn’t tolerated on public transport.

              • SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                4 days ago

                I’m pretty sure that compared to the US, the only relevant social program we have is cops chasing homeless people out of sight, as opposed to letting them hang out wherever.

                Aside from universal healthcare, of course.

                  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    12·
                    4 days ago

                    Oh please feel free to tell me how I’m wrong about things happening in my country, jackass.