• Eheran@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This is pure green washing, the guy wants to make money with his “alternative” product.

    Obviously transportation as a whole emits a lot of CO2. But not so much the infrastructure, since that lasts a long time, so even high initial emissions are quickly irrelevant compared to the emissions of using the infrastructure. Rails, being electric a lot and with low friction, are the best case(?) scenario “against” this. I would still assume that due to the decades of use that the initial upfront CO2 of making railways is somewhat irrelevant.