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Re:Vegan diet has 30% of the environmental impact of high-me... by farhanhubble on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:58PM (#36855893)
Just as electric cars have no environmental impact related to emissions until you think about the faraway coal fired power plant that produced the energy to charge the vehicles and the energy that got lost along the way during transmission.
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Re:Vegan diet has 30% of the environmental impact of high-me... by marmakoide on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:24PM (#36856109)
It depends, maybe ? I live in a country where energy come from 69% nuclear power, and about 10% hydro, 10% solar/wind, 10% gas. The nuclear plants are evenly spread over the populated area.
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Re:Vegan diet has 30% of the environmental impact of high-me... by Grimblewald on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:30PM (#36856154)
an EV has a near future potential for being fueled by green energy, especially since during peak power production for types such as solar, most of us are at work with cars potentially plugged in and ready to make use of that abundance.

a fossil fuel ICE on the other hand is decades if not centuries away from workable green alternatives.

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Re:Vegan diet has 30% of the environmental impact of high-me... by _joel on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:06PM (#36855961)
Currently 33% of my power is coming from renewables, another 15% from nuclear. There's 0% coming in from coal.
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Re:Vegan diet has 30% of the environmental impact of high-me... by farhanhubble on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:31PM (#36856162)
Well I used coal as an example of a source of energy that adversely affects the environment in well understood terms. The point was that looking at numbers in isolation paints a picture much rosier than it actually is.
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Re:Vegan diet has 30% of the environmental impact of high-me... by edmundsauto on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:43PM (#36856277)
The alternative ICE also has those energy expenditures to get manufactured…
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Re:Vegan diet has 30% of the environmental impact of high-me... by reducesuffering on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:11PM (#36856005)
OP’s domicile, Western Australia, is like 8% coal themselves. It would probably be a better use of their time attempting to get that number down rather than spreading FUD.
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Re:Vegan diet has 30% of the environmental impact of high-me... by afsgknoinionio on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:19PM (#36857065)
It would be really useful if there were some way to take that into account. If an electric car is charged with a typical mix of electricity sources, how much gasoline would you have to burn to put out the same amount of CO2?

Perhaps the EPA should put out some sort of miles per gallon gasoline equivalent, or MPGe for short.

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