Re:The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money
by crottypeter on Monday July 18, 2016 @11:35AM
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> Unless I've really messed up my math,
You have.
The chart is in (g per 100 kcal)
>"magic math" and change them from 42 g/km to 229g/km.
42 is for production of the car 229 is for ‘well to wheel' emissions (i.e. exhaust-pipe plus those emitted to produce the petrol).
No "magic" required.
They have a chart showing CO2 per calories for different foods which goes from 11 to 1431.
But when they do the final result for a bicycle using some kind of global average food consumption they use the number .144!
Unless I've really messed up my math, the number for a bicycle should be around 200 to 1000 times higher than what they show.
Next they take car emissions, do some "magic math" and change them from 42 g/km to 229g/km.
Using their own numbers, but fixing their math shows a bicycle emitting more than a car.