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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by btcindivist on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:30AM (#16856268)
The CO2 impact of your car driving is much less than impact from heating-cooling, and probably also from your diet. Cars are efficient machines. Houses are rarely built well, especially in the US, and the production of common US diet ingredients is ridiculously inefficient but heavily subsidized.
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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by morsch on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:19AM (#16856475)
The overall consuming emissions contribution of the transport sector is at around 20%. The building sector (hvac) seems to be similar.

Cars are not efficient machines. The engine is limited to around 50% efficiency, the heat is wasted. And you're typically propelling 1600+kg of mass which is almost purely overhead.

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by btcindivist on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:25AM (#16856507)
Heating and cooling trumps the transport sector with 30%+. Globally, stuff does skew a lot from our first worldly habits.

If you do the calculations similar to those done in http://withouthotair.com/ you'd see your first worldly habits put your heating and cooling at the top, and probably your diet at the second place.

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by Retric on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:02AM (#16857194)
Energy use is not the same as CO2 production. Cars produce a lot of CO2 in the oil extraction, transport, and refining stages. Heating and AC use wind, solar, electric, nuclear, etc not just fossil fuels.
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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by icebraining on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:54AM (#16856864)
So because transportation is not the top CO2 impact industry, no changes to it can have a substantial impact on the environment?
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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by btcindivist on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:57AM (#16856883)
When profiling are we optimizing the fastest functions?
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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by LoSboccacc on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:44AM (#16856827)
Transport sector is quite more than cars tho. Tankers especially are a mess.
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