Timeline for Carbon foot print from the manufacture of bikes?
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| Jun 17, 2019 at 20:22 | vote | accept | Muze | ||
| Mar 28, 2018 at 12:41 | comment | added | Argenti Apparatus | Slightly late but this answer links to manufacturer that decided to not product CF frames for ethical and environmental reasons. It does highlight that CO2 is not the only pollutant that should be considered. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 21:40 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | @EvilSnack and I've spent ballpark $30k for fuel to run a $10k car for 150,000 km. So the costs are totally region+tax dependent, whereas the carbon cost would only vary by delivery distance from the factory, and environmental factors like weather conditions where the car is being operated. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 21:38 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | @EvilSnack You're bringing money into a question that has no monetary component. The carbon cost is a weight. Comparing the carbon released by making a car and driving for (say) 200,000 km vs driving an old car from 200,000 km to 400,000 km. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 20:27 | answer | added | Chris H | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 11:33 | comment | added | David Richerby | @EvilSnack Do you have a reference for that rule of thumb? It does sound broadly plausible but it feels like gasoline could be a significant exception, since it's relatively easy to extract and refine, it's bought purely to be turned into carbon dioxide and its price varies very much between different locales. For example, the current average price in the US is about $2.60/gal, whereas in the UK it's about £1.20 per litre, which is about $5.74/gal. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 0:50 | comment | added | EvilSnack | From an economics perspective, it actually makes sense that the gas from the old car makes less of a footprint than the manufacture of a new car. At 130k miles, I've spent about one third as much on the gas for my car as I have on the car itself. While there is a degree of variance, as a general rule of thumb the environmental impact of a commodity or manufactured item is roughly proportional to its price. | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 23:38 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | I've changed the tags because its not road or mtb specific, its nothing to do with carbon which is a tag for carbon fibre, and electric is only slightly related. We don't really have a tag for "carbon" as in atmospheric. So @ArgentiApparatus 's suggestion would be a good idea. That said, its a good question because I have no idea. | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 23:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackBicycles/status/977327941221675008 | ||
| Mar 23, 2018 at 23:33 | history | edited | Criggie♦ |
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| Mar 23, 2018 at 17:13 | comment | added | Argenti Apparatus | You may have better luck asking the question on the Earth Sciences SE | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 16:39 | history | edited | Muze | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2018 at 16:35 | history | edited | Argenti Apparatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2018 at 16:33 | comment | added | Argenti Apparatus | Can we assume you mean how far to travel on a bike instead of driving a car? | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 14:35 | comment | added | user37012 | I read that the diet of the rider/driver can have more of an effect on climate change than whether they drive a car or ride a bike. As for me, I like to put my bike on the back of my car, go get a burger, drive out really far, ride my bike around, and then drive back home and maybe get another burger on the way back. | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 14:00 | history | asked | Muze | CC BY-SA 3.0 |