• dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    Seems obvious to pick a new transit paradigm for personal cars, obviously trucks can stay.

    Also in the current era, coal plants already have a good replacement: nuclear. At least for bigger countries, but most are shutting down rather than improving. This might be (hopefully) starting to change though in recent times.

    Also I don’t know what fusion power is, I shall be on wikipedia now. Good day sir.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 minutes ago

      Assuming you mean commericial grade hauler trucks and such, I absolutely agree with all your points.

      … Are we running commercial trucks on biodiesel yet?

      But yeah, for personal transit… a huge amount of the world gets around on bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles. Cars are basically a luxury, like, any car.

      Of course that works because public transit over long distances tends to work, and the whole country tends to not be laid out as just a cancerous mass of utterly useless suburubs, strewn out around urban cores that are half parking lot.

      I dunno, if we just say, banned pickup trucks and SUVs for private use, well, that’d cut down on road maintenance a good deal, would make being a moped or bicycle or motorcycle commuter a bit more feasible.