More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights

Re:More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights by postingawayonhn on Saturday February 15, 2020 @07:36AM (#22334899)

Fair point, though I don't see any major problem even if air travel was to increase by 2 or 3 times, so long as we make significant reductions in other areas.

I took 6 flights (~3,000km each).

I would start with the immediate implementation of a tax (10%?, 20%?) on all new ICE vehicle sales. Revenue from this tax would be used to subsidize the purchase of EVs.

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Re:More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights by morsch on Saturday February 15, 2020 @08:21AM (#22335119)

At approximately 1000 kg COeq per 3000 km trip[1]. Your budget for the whole year was 2300 kg.

[1] https://www.atmosfair.de/en/offset/flight

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Re:More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights by postingawayonhn on Saturday February 15, 2020 @08:54AM (#22335298)

Where is 1,000kg coming from?

I looked up one of my flights (actually only about 2,400km) using that calculator and only got 230kg (83kg of C02 and 173kg of "contrails, ozone formations, etc."). This flight was on a A321neo.

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Re:More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights by morsch on Saturday February 15, 2020 @09:43AM (#22335562)

I took a random 7000 km flight and extrapolated. Sorry if that ended up off by such a large martin.

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