Keep in mind that although an electric bike might use more energy input than a regular road bike, it uses a much cleaner type of fuel. Even the most dirty coal power plant in the world has a significantly lower CO2 output per watt hour than the food you are eating to power a bicycle. Even if you are vegan
Coal power has a CO2 intensity of ~1 g / Wh (source: IEA)
A plant based diet has a CO2 intensity of ~1 g / Wh (source: ourworldindata)
Production CO2 intensity of a bicycle is also lower than an e-bike.
Pedaling under your own power also has health benefits, which the e-bike rider would need to do additional exercise to achieve, thus increasing their total CO2 intensity further.
In short, sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up about shit you clearly don’t understand.
A plant based diet has a CO2 intensity of ~1 g / Wh
Yes, and since our metabolism is very inefficient you actually need to eat almost 4 watt hours worth of food for 1 watt hour of energy output, everything else just turns into body heat. Meanwhile ebikes have an efficiency of roughly 70-80% when accounting for charging losses and motor efficiency.
Keep in mind that although an electric bike might use more energy input than a regular road bike, it uses a much cleaner type of fuel. Even the most dirty coal power plant in the world has a significantly lower CO2 output per watt hour than the food you are eating to power a bicycle. Even if you are vegan
Wrong.
Coal power has a CO2 intensity of ~1 g / Wh (source: IEA)
A plant based diet has a CO2 intensity of ~1 g / Wh (source: ourworldindata)
Production CO2 intensity of a bicycle is also lower than an e-bike.
Pedaling under your own power also has health benefits, which the e-bike rider would need to do additional exercise to achieve, thus increasing their total CO2 intensity further.
In short, sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up about shit you clearly don’t understand.
Yes, and since our metabolism is very inefficient you actually need to eat almost 4 watt hours worth of food for 1 watt hour of energy output, everything else just turns into body heat. Meanwhile ebikes have an efficiency of roughly 70-80% when accounting for charging losses and motor efficiency.
We should probably just stop eating.