129: A Modicum of Transport with Horace Dediu
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Cars Are More Efficient Than Airplanes
The idea is that we can now compare the efficiency of different vehicles, but not just to transport themselves. A road trip in a car with full occupancy is going to be actually more efficient than flying those five people on a jet plane for typically, let's say, 500 kilometers or so. The average occupancy of a car is one point two passengers. Soit rounds down to one. All i did was i made the passenger into a weight. That is allows us to also think about, you know, delivering meals, or, you know,. like the business of delivering packages and other objects. How much energy do we need to move one person one kilometer? And then you look at walking
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