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Comment · 7 years ago
> It is not exactly clear whether passenger flights are less environmentally friendly than various other options. Driving for long distances can be worse for the environment than flying commercially[0].

There might be some question whether cars less efficient than planes, but I am not aware of any such doubt w.r.t. trains, which is what we are discussing here. Also note that few people would drive the long distances that a plane or train enable them to cover.

> but it is unclear how the method of calculation (ecopassenger.org) works, whether it considers that rail and road infrastructure requires far more energy

The methodology is available [0]. It considers direct emissions, so no maintenance or manufacture. Can you make an argument why these should be more than a low percentage of the direct emission? I mean sure, it might require 1000x more energy to maintain, but its not like that is a large part of the final emission per kilometer.

> since you cannot change the load of plane and train separately

Why would you need to? Of course people who take the train instead of the plane reduce demand for planes and increase demand for trains. So there are fewer plane trips and more rail trips. Assuming that rail trips are environmentally advantages, why would that be a bad idea?

> even though it is clear that flight operators often overbook planes, while trains often run with pretty low loads.

The model considers rail load factors based on real world data where available, substituting 35% as an approximation where no data is available. Do you have any reason to object to that?

0: http://ecopassenger.hafas.de/hafas-res/download/Ecopassenger...

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
The movement around the Hambach forest is incredibly diverse: it covers die-hard anarchists, protestant and catholic priests and everything in between. There is no need to not partake in a protest just because you suspect you might not do everything you can to further the cause. Any support is usually welcome.
Comment · 8 years ago
I live about 50 minutes away from this location. In my opinion it is an absolute atrocity, especially given the recent tragic death. Our politicians are discussing about phasing out coal until December (there is a commission to find suggestions), and despite this, RWE (the owner of the mine) tries to evict the occupation. It is a pure provocation since it is absolutely unclear whether clearing the forest is ultimately necessary.
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Comment · 8 years ago
In the same sense as your server has an "energy consumption" of 2000W, i.e. 1W <=> 356*24/1000 kWh/a.
Comment · 8 years ago
IIRC it is mostly so that the passenger's eyes adapt to the outside light level in case of an evacuation.
Comment · 8 years ago
I would be curious if you've done any benchmarks. It would be interesting to know how close this gets to a "naive" and "expert" regular L3 BLAS.
Comment · 8 years ago
If you want just the aesthetics, add just the tiniest bit of turmeric. It dyes like crazy and if you add little it adds nearly no taste.
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Comment · 8 years ago
It looks really cool, much more usable (IMO) than Inform7, which probably is the grandfather of all CYOA languages.

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