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Real-world CO2 emissions of cars are 20% higher than indicated. For plug-in hybrids they are 350% higher.
(climate.ec.europa.eu)
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At least at one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are outweighing its aesthetic appeal.
Are they going to stop making cars with huge front hoods which are hugely dangerous to pedestrians? Or stop marketing their cars as if they're meant to be driven dangerously?
As a brit I don't see this being enforced in the UK. The gov would be too scared that trump or an ally would come to power and we can't risk effecting the special welationship ππ
Yeah way before. I had a bit of a look through some announcements and couldn't find it so I can't say exactly when.
IIRC they changed the way they calculate the scores a few years ago, which generally increased the numbers you saw.
Government owned infrastructure is common outside North America.
Autonomous trains work in sealed environments (e.g. a metro tunnel) and make sense when you're running trains every few minutes or less (e.g. a metro system). For freight the ideas are thrown around to scare workers into agreeing to worse terms under the threat of losing their jobs to automation.
You linked to my post which is just a cross post from this community?
Your first point isn't exactly true for the rails relevant to the article. Outside some mining railways, the track is owned by the Australian federal government, like the roads. I don't know how the usage fees and tax structures compare between the two modes.
With regards to your second point, it depends on the cargo as to whether that matters. A lot of the cargo will also travel by ship for some of its journey, and that will take a lot more time, so the land side journey time doesn't really matter.
Autonomous pod bullshit doesn't help here. One of the major advantages of rail freight is the economies of scale. You load up a big efficient train full of stuff because you have so much stuff heading in one direction.
The article actually has a quote that sums up the why:
"It's largely due to the inefficiencies of a fragmented national rail network, ailing infrastructure and government policy and investment that favours road over rail."
The answer is just to invest in rail and incentivise its use.
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Health gains of low-traffic schemes up to 100 times greater than costs, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
Quite a big improvement over the last image of Orion I posted, and the two other attempts in between that I didn't post. This is mainly due to the addition of an OG star tracker that has allowed me to take 30" sub exposures and helped me to increase my total integration time. So this was:
- 407 * 30" exposures
- 50 dark frames
- 50 flat frames
- 50 bias frames
shot with:
- Sony A7Cii
- Minolta 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 300mm f/5.6
- OG star tracker
and my processing steps were:
- calibration, registration and stacking in Siril v1.2.0
- background extraction, stretching, colour calibration, and noise removal again in Siril
- final levels adjustment and crop in darktable.
This is 1158 * 0.8" exposures along with 50 dark and 50 flat frames stacked with Siril. Shot with my Sony A7Cii and a Hasselblad 350mm f/5.6.
I did some astrophotography back in 2014 with some pretty basic gear I scrounged together second hand, and I've been wanting to get back into it for a while but the software situation has always put me off. I got some good results from my free trial of pixinsight but it didn't make sense to purchase. I had another go recently with Siril and got a promising result, so I did a bit more and got this.
It's 1298 * 1" lights untracked shot with my Sony A7Cii and an old Minolta 75-300 lens just on a tripod on my balcony.
