I had an odd thought today. We all know that riding a bicycle is a relatively “green” form of transportation. Getting your body from point A to point B by bike clearly takes far less energy than, say, transporting yourself the same distance together with a 1.5 ton automobile.<\/p>\n
But has anybody actually calculated how much it costs in energy to feed a bike rider? Humans are notoriously inefficient converters of solar energy into useful work, given how high we are on the food chain. If you are a vegetarian it might not be so bad. But once you start talking about eating a meal that contains, say, farm raised beef, the actual energy cost of bicycling those ten miles might not be so small after all.<\/p>\n
Does anybody happen to know how to calculate this cost?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had an odd thought today. We all know that riding a bicycle is a relatively “green” form of transportation. Getting your body from point A to point B by bike clearly takes far less energy than, say, transporting yourself the same distance together with a 1.5 ton automobile. But has anybody actually calculated how … Continue reading “Green bicycles”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}