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Bernardo de La Paz

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3. No need to beat up on electric busses. Consider the alternative: internal combustion engine busses.

Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:34 PM

Jun 1

most electricity on this planet, places like France... ...parts of Sweden, Norway excepted, is generated by the combustion of dangerous fossil fuels.

That's not the fault of electric busses. So why criticize the speaker for praising electric busses? Would you prefer no busses?

We get that you want only nuclear energy.
We get that you don't like increasing CO2 levels.

But here we are. The perfect is the enemy of the good. There will never be a perfect or instant transformation. So railing against electric busses is not a solution. Destroying all ICEs immediately is not an option or even an option to destroy them all by the end of the year. There is not going to be an instant changeover. We get that, but the way you rant, I'm not sure if you do.

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"The speaker praises electric buses, but these are also indirectly - in most cases - fueled by fossil fuels." Bernardo de La Paz Jun 1 #1

I am not "ranting." I'm merely stating a fact, which is that most electricity on this planet, places like France... NNadir Jun 1 #2

No need to beat up on electric busses. Consider the alternative: internal combustion engine busses. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 1 #3

If you read the paper cited in one of my links, you will see that in New Jersey, an electric car is dirtier than... NNadir Jun 1 #4

That paper is based on current fossil component of electricity production Bernardo de La Paz Jun 1 #5

It seems every time we talk, I have to make this remark: "Is" is different that "could." NNadir Jun 1 #6

You don't want an energy transition to nuclear? I thought you did. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 1 #7