Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

Re:Lime and Bird are growing rapidly by baroffoos on Monday December 03, 2018 @07:29PM (#18594663)

Also coal powerplants run much more efficiently than a car engine.

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Re:Lime and Bird are growing rapidly by christophclarke on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:20PM (#18594968)

Internal combustion engines operate at about 25% efficiency (per this paper, page 54)

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/5764...

Coal power plants operate in the range of 34% efficiency

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=107&t=3

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_02.html

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Re:Lime and Bird are growing rapidly by Rebelgecko on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:35PM (#18595081)

I wonder how much of that gets offset by transmission loss and the scooter's charging/discharging inefficiencies?

Not that that would be a reason not to use scooters in and off itself, since they're be posed to take advantage of grids that will hopefully become more and more renewable over time

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Re:Lime and Bird are growing rapidly by baroffoos on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:35PM (#18595076)

Also they tend to be run very far away so you aren't getting a blast of pollution to the face every time you go outside

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Re:Lime and Bird are growing rapidly by adtac on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:11PM (#18594916)

Is there a statistical report on this? I'm not contesting your claim, I'm just curious to see _how_ much more efficient.

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