jbdoug

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   by jbdoug 3y ago

   Highways (and resulting sprawl) aren't the result of free market economics -- they are a policy decision. https://www.ibisworld.com/us/bed/government-funding-for-high...
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   by jbdoug 3y ago

   Well we spend the last 60 years reengineering all our cities to be car-centric, so who's to say we can't undo that? Most of the top 100 US cities existed before cars, we just hollowed out all the urban cores in service of having a
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   by jbdoug 4y ago

   Yeah that's pretty solid!
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   by jbdoug 4y ago

   Yeah it seems like, in Boston at least, grid carbon intensity peaks between 12 and 8pm and is at its lowest around 4am. It's probably on a case by case basis though -- if you live in an area that still burns a lot of coal, your base lo
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   by jbdoug 4y ago

   I'm pretty sure the base load (which what you're drawing from off of peak hours) is largely produced by fossil fuel generation because those sources don't have the variability of renewables (I don't think a lot of solar