And I thought Americans were carbrained, holy shit.

(To be fair, he's not wrong in that this is intended to keep the auto companies and the government nice and fat -- but the obvious response to this is to agitate for better public transit, not railing against an environmentally sound policy.)

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[–] 68 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I used to live next to some folk who would drive 300 metres to the gym

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that one always gets me: and then they run 5 miles on a treadmill.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I always thought the equipment should all be hooked up to some sort of generator somehow so that the place could turn all that energy being spent exercising into electricity for the lights etc. There could also be pancakes 🥞

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    You need an exercise bike to produce something like a few hundred watts at most, if you can keep up an intense session. Continous stable power generation will be lower.

    And everything which isn't a bike will have much lower peak power generation capacity, and will be less efficient too

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I bet a place like that already exists somewhere!

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