• topperharlie@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    so you are telling me that the energy to keep a car in the air is equivalent to move a car on wheels? hmmm interesting…

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        6 hours ago

        That’s just straight up not true, you need to build the dammed things and that leaves s big footprint.

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          6 hours ago

          Okay so what do you want to do? Go back to the stone age? Get of your phone and follow the ways of Ted Kaczynski.

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            3 hours ago

            How about just acknowledge the obvious downside and not making stuff up, dolt.

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            5 hours ago

            So it’s either out-of-control consumer production or back to stone age? No in between?

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      8 hours ago

      no but I think the point was that the gas wasn’t compressed in the car, the same way the electricity wasn’t produced in the car, there’s no direct carbon emissions just indirect ones primarily from however that country is generating its electricity (as the air compressor that was used to charge it probably runs on mains electric)

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        7 hours ago

        The plan is for the vehicle to have an air compressor on board, I don’t know if the vehicle in the demo has it though.

        But yes, compressed air is typically electricity with extra steps.