mhoyeOne acre of solar panels produces as much energy as a hundred acres of corn-based ethanol, with the added benefit that you aren't literally burning food.
"E-biking - best thought of as biking without hills - may prove to be an even more important innovation. The e-bike is almost unbelievably efficient: to fully charge a five-hundred-watt e-bike costs, on average, about eight cents. That charge provides some thirty miles of range, so it costs about a penny to ride five miles."
Thib@thibaultamartin I thought so, yeah.
JF 
Anomnomnomaly BSC SSCMy 500wh battery can get me between 50-60 miles, and If you use solar to charge it like I do for most of the year. It's free.... providing you ignore the cost of installing the solar system in the first place... but that installation costs saves in the region of £1200 a year on our energy bills.
John Gordon 📷@mhoye What surprised me in the UK (where I am visiting) has been the amount of negative stories about e-bikes on the TV here. Seems there are a lot of modified e-bikes (or so they claimed), often used by food delivery people. Honestly, I’d rather food delivery around towns was done on an e-bike than by car. As long as they stay on the roads, I can’t see the issue. Smells like an anti-electrification campaign to me.
@Bluedonkey hating on food delivery ebikes is the venn intersection of car culture, gasoline dependency and racism, so I have to admit hearing that this is a political position in the UK doesn’t surprise me in the least.
kelpIt's weird really, the entire system that incentivizes dangerous food delivery is right there out in the open. Delivery drivers are incentivized to deliver as fast as possible, to locations that may not be nessecarily accessible by car. A modified e-bike is a logical conclusion.
Thing is, in my town, i feel almost incentivised to cycle dangerously and piss people off. It's a choice between slugging it out in four lane roads full of drivers who in my experience tend to not notice me, or diving inbetween pedestrians.
So, if I want to cycle, its a choice between:
* Risking my life on the road
* Being a menace to pedestrians
It's kind of a no brainer that anything in relation to cycling gets so much hate
Tero Hänninen@mhoye ”Scientists are confident that the sun will burn for another five billion years.”
Huge relief!!
Emma Loves ☕️@mhoye here's the non-paywalled link https://archive.is/5I7B6