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?

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    7 days ago

    yeah see your definitions fit with what I have in my head. the metro compared to tram/trolley which I really just thing of as a bus on rails although I did not really have a good name for the greater city area but I guess commuter makes sense. when it comes to farther I start thinking it like shipping or airtravel when it comes to those long distances. since they are not an everyday or even everyyear type thing I just don’t think of them enough to have a real term for them. Oh man though I went to school downstate and was using a bus system and either they didn’t have any spots left or the place to get it was closed so I picked up an amtrack train and after that it was my first and prefered method to get back and forth from school even though it was a bit pricier. More comfortable and larger seats. Can actually get up and move around. Bathrooms you are not scared to use and a car selling stuff like gas station fare but it had tables which was nice.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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      7 days ago

      I recently took my first Amtrak train (which is funny because I’ve been to countless railroad museums, I’ve been collecting model trains for most of my life, I’ve freaking driven a train, but you know the one thing I didn’t do before this month? Ride Amtrak.

      Honestly it was a super wonderful experience that I absolutely want to do again. Even sleeping in the coach seat was way better than I’d expected! And $80 to go halfway across the country is hard to beat!