Solarpunk Travel

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

!trains@midwest.social ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
!rail@feddit.uk ← UK Rail and Trains
!ukpublictransport@feddit.uk ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

!travel@eviltoast.org ← general travel
!main@lemmy.globe.pub ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
!traveltips@feddit.uk ← Europe focus

The communities listed above are decentralized. Centralized instances are omitted as they go against the fedi purpose and it’s better to cultivate digital rights in the free world. That means instances that have a disproportionately large population or are centralized on Cloudflare are not listed.

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How bad are electric bikes for the environment? (Spoiler, they can actually be better than regular bikes!) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by ProdigalFrog to c/solarpunktravel

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean if course they're worse than regular bikes, but that's not really the point is it?

[–] Strykker@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The answer was in the fucking title and you still got it wrong!

Sure on a pure production based outlook ebikes would be worse since they require more material.

But e bikes allow people to go further, and encourage people to use them more often, meaning an ebike will replace more car trips than a standard bike would. This can end up offsetting the extra costs of producing the ebike in the first place.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 7 points 7 months ago

For things like hills and keeping up with traffic ebikes are a game changer. I literally couldn't go on half the trips I take without the motor

[–] poVoq 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently a fancy lightweight aluminium frame regular bike can be worse in terms of resources used for producing it, compared to a regular ebike with a steel frame. I guess this also counts for titanium and carbon-fiber frames.