How bad are electric bikes for the environment?
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Are these things actually a net positive for the planet? Watch an extended cut of this video on Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/simonclarkCheck out Electroheads...

I editorialised the title as the original was clickbait, but the video itself is quite good. Interestingly, e-bikes are claimed to have lower emissions than acoustic bikes, although it likely depends on diet (the author didn’t specifically compare a vegan diet between the two types but did indicate that vegan + electric is the most carbon efficient form).

  • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Do you even talk about the same units? Sometimes kilocalories get colloquially called calories, but there is a difference of factor 1000.

    Here in Germany Coca Cola has on their nutrition list 180kJ or 42kcal per 100ml. That’s 42000 calories for a fifth of a small bottle coke (500ml).

    0.5kcal really isn’t much.

    • HubertManne@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      yeah that could be it. Im really not sure when it comes to what these devices throw out. I think its the came calories as what a candybar like lists or that like the average person consume 2000 of them per day for my numbers.