How to decarbonise transport

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The International Transport Forum (ITF) releases a biennial report on how we can reduce the carbon emissions from transport - planes, trains, automobiles, and more. This video is a summary of the recent 2023 ITF report, breaking their "high ambition" framework down into fifteen steps. Are these steps the optimal pathway to decarbonising transport? Quite possibly not. Is there lots of complexity in the report that I don't have the time to discuss in the video? Definitely. Are sustainable aviation fuels realistic? Doubtful.
But this video is an overview of one - at least quasi- - realistic pathway to slashing transport emissions. It contains several points that I am doubtful of. But I hope this is a useful starting point, based on a respected think tank and established literature. If you would like to learn more, please check out the documents below:
- ITF 2023 report: www.itf-oecd.org/sites/defaul...
- ITF 2021 report: www.oecd-ilibrary.org/transpo...
- Drawdown: geni.us/drawdown
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Video title: How to decarbonise transport
This video is about how to decarbonise transport - how we can move around without emitting (as much) carbon dioxide. This video essay is based on the International Transport Forum (ITF) and their reports. The 2023 ITF report has lots of detail on how the transport can reduce its carbon emissions, that I summarise in how to decarbonise transport in 15 steps. If you like videos from Wendover Productions, Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell, Climate Town, Not Just Bikes, or Real Life Lore, you'll enjoy this video essay about how to reduce carbon emissions from transport.
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@mooreanonumbers 11 ай бұрын

I'm surprised forcing manufacturers to build lighter cars is rarely mentioned as a stopgap, especially when it's affecting many other issues. The weight, size and power creep has been immense over the past few decades. Having people alone in their 2 tons EV tanks isn't gonna cut it, especially if only the upper middle class can afford it without getting into debt.

@iantaakalla8180 11 ай бұрын

That is true. It also helps that sedans are safer in almost every way than an SUV and an SUV is not really used for its purpose of going off-road much if at all.

@yoironfistbro8128 11 ай бұрын

Electric cars are there to save the motor industry, not the environment. We need a huge modal shift towards bikes, trams, and trains, yesterday

@bartroberts1514 11 ай бұрын

It was tried. It failed. The CAFE standards of the 90's were on their way to being successful when Edsel Ford Jr. led the subversive charge of corporate communism in the USA and linked arms with other SUV makers globally to escape the domestic vehicle rules, accompanied by an open campaign of product placement targeted at young men in action movies (what, you think Fast & Furious, Stallone and Schwarzenegger got financed for their art?) and an under-the-table campaign aimed at mothers to scare them out of the safer smaller vehicles into big SUVs and vans with far worse safety outcomes. The only way to force manufacturers to go less fossil-emissions intensive is to make it clear to them that fossil is going away. Curtail fossil extraction 2% of today's level per month down to zero by 2030. Do it openly. Say you're doing it often. Get the message through that anyone buying a gas guzzler is going to be left without fuel.

@Simon-nx1sc 11 ай бұрын

@@yoironfistbro8128 as the video says: both! we need electrification and modal shift! but cars are here to stay (i hate this as much as you do, trust me), so we better electrify them

@goranjosic 11 ай бұрын

The problem is that the batteries are terribly heavy - more than half the weight of today's EV models - so you have to have a much stiffer and stronger chassis that can withstand the pressure of the batteries. Besides, no one ever mentions where we will find so much lithium and other metals needed to produce batteries?!

@mikajacobsen860 11 ай бұрын

Also, there are soooo many many more good reasons to reduce car traffic in urban areas through walkability, bikabilty and public transit. Less death, injury, pollution, wasted space, sealed areas (flooding), noise, etc. CO2 reductions are really just the tip of the melting iceberg.

@betula2137 11 ай бұрын

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@hedgehog3180 11 ай бұрын

Don't forget better overall health, with combustion engines reducing the amount of them reduces air pollution and thus increases health but even with electric vehicles just getting people to walk and bike more obviously improves their health.

@Anankin12 11 ай бұрын

Funny thing is that air pollution (NOT related to greenhouse gases) will not be solved by electric cars, unless a breakthrough in solving their weight happens. Brakes and other mechanical components common to all kinds of car will release pollutants that are harmful to us, and the removal of the engine generated ones is almost exactly compensated by the increase of emissions of every other component due to the extra weight. An electric car that is driven regularly is ALWAYS better than a ice one, tho, on greenhouse emissions, even if the energy used to run it comes from the worst possible current source of energy -coal- because of how inefficient the entire infrastructure to make, distribute, deliver is and the thermodynamical limitations of ICE engines (operating temperature and pressure put a hard cap to engine efficiency at about 45% if I'm not mistaken). So, tafic elimination is the best solution for cities (as stated in the video), but it would also be the best solution if we weren't goin through a climate crisis of our own making.

@GabrielPettier 11 ай бұрын

and the noise, the f**g noise from cars, cities are not loud, cars are, and gosh, even when people start switching to electric that's a relief, but no cars at all is so much better.

@Anankin12 11 ай бұрын

@@GabrielPettier cities are loud even without cars. I mean, cars make it 100% worse, but don't kid yourself

@disaster_chief 11 ай бұрын

glad you mentioned Australia - I'm in my 20s and when I heard that a plan for a very fast train connecting the east coast has been around since at least the 80s I was utterly confused as to why it hasn't resulted in anything. I was also understandably pissed off when our carbon tax was repealed. (all this was more than 10 years ago so I didn't understand the political power that massive corporations have - especially corporate media)

@chickennoodle6620 11 ай бұрын

HSR in Australia is essentially a policy just brought up by governments during elections to entice voters and then as a money making scheme for the consultancies that are inevitably requested to write a report on it. We should really concentrate on improve state rail systems and connecting major cities in the state with faster rail before upgrading to HSR between the capital cities.

@tim290280 11 ай бұрын

HSR isn't financially viable, and logistically it is a mess since all the rail networks were sold off. Rail gauges don't match between states and so much of the former network is in disrepair. But that's the excuses, realistically it can be done pretty quickly and would radically change things.

@hedgehog3180 11 ай бұрын

@@tim290280 HSR is usually an enormous money maker so I don't know what you're talking about. They're so profitable that often the government doesn't even have to provide much funding because private investors are willing to step in, for example the first leg of the TGV network was paid for entirely through private investment. This is also why you're seeing a ton of privately run HSR companies springing up in Europe. In the hand of a national operator HSR lines can help cover the cost of less profitable regional routes, which are needed to seriously cut down on road traffic.

@infidelheretic923 11 ай бұрын

Australia has a lot of coal. It’s going to be very difficult for an industry that brings in that much revenue and employs that many people to simply shutdown. I’d recommend switching to nuclear as Australia also has a lot of Uranium.

@tim290280 11 ай бұрын

@@infidelheretic923 coal mining employees surprisingly few people and new mines aren't really making money. Nuclear doesn't make much sense in Australia right now.

@simonabunker 11 ай бұрын

Moving away from fossil fuels for other transport will help reduce emissions from shipping a lot - as many ships are tankers transporting oil. Love the digital version of your book in the background!

@SimonClark 11 ай бұрын

Yes this was a point in the ITF report! I wanted to feature it in the video but I worried it made the script too long

@touyats1 11 ай бұрын

@@SimonClarkwhat does the report say about SAFs/SSFs being shipped long distance because it all countries will have enough space and money and renewables to build renewable fuel plants in their land ? Or if the fuel market evolves in a way to keep the status quo, like the Middle East staying as e-fuel suppliers for political stability reasons ?

@thamiordragonheart8682 11 ай бұрын

@@touyats1 it's possible they stay as fuel suppliers, but probably only if concentrated solar thermal turns out to be the cheapest way to make sustainable aviation fuels. On the other hand, high-temperature nuclear reactors can do anything concentrated solar thermal can, so unless you're talking about Germany, if can probably mostly be produced locally.

@touyats1 11 ай бұрын

@@thamiordragonheart8682 nuclear pops out every time as a silver bullet for use case for which renewables allegedly would not make sense… until you realize that renewables pretty much make sense for everything. It kinda feels a bit the last song of the dying swan. Btw, I don’t think only Germany is opposed to nuclear. Austria too. And Italy technically still has a binding referendum banning nuclear. Moreover even if Germany was the only opposer, they have great power in pushing many other eu countries in the direction of phasing out nuclear. Ever noticed for example how most of the nuclear reactors shut off in the in the last decade happen to be bordering Germany ? Germans have been very clear with Switzerland too in wanting their reactors to be closed down. They are just too big of a risk for eu’s internal political stability.

@thamiordragonheart8682 11 ай бұрын

@@touyats1 I was more thinking that if ultra-high temprature process heat was what you needed, concentrated solar and nuclear are both options and concentrated solar is honestly so bad cost wise for electricity that they probably are competitive with each other even though neither is competitive for electricity with anything else. My general opinion on nuclear is that if we hadn't completely stopped all nuclear energy investment after Chornobyl it would probably be competitive with solar and might have even already replaced a lot of fossil fuel energy generation since in principle it should be better, but at this point, renewables have such a head start in terms of research and actual production experience, not to mention regulatory and operational experience, that there isn't going to be a compelling case for nuclear energy closer to the sun than the asteroid belt in the next century.

@martincrotty 11 ай бұрын

Very interesting video. We're definitely caught up in a situation where transport advanced so quickly and we've completely normalised it to such a point that we can't look at it from an outside perspective. In such a short amount of time, we've completely built our systems around strange metal contraptions dependent on long dead crushed microorganisms, or rare earth metals extracted from across the world, and while it's been good for us, now so many see these metal contraptions as the only way to go. Look at the outrage and panic over the concept of 15 minute cities and building our societies around humans instead. There's no real recognition that masses of people stuck in traffic constantly because many necessary services are further away isn't really normal but it's perceived as an attack on the ordinary everyday people. That said, I don't blame them for being sceptical and distrusting with how very little has been done at the political level to try and cut down and restrict the use of private jets used by a minority of the population. Flight is also very interesting when you truly take a few steps back and admire the sheer spectacle of it For millenia, man looked up at the birds in the sky and dreamed of the possibilities of what it would be like to fly with such freedom and peace. Now here we are just over a century since flight with planes started off and so many take it as an absolute birthright and completely normalise it, bitching and moaning all the way about the sheer inconveniences expected getting to the airport through security, and boarding a flight with so many others, likely to sleep the whole journey and not truly grasping the absurdity of these flying vehicles that will let us travel distances our ancestors could only dream about in such a short amount of time

@ukeyaoitrash2618 11 ай бұрын

@@phyarth8082 Where do you get how much dry wood they burned? with all due respect, this sounds like complete bollocks...

@Ruhrpottpatriot 11 ай бұрын

@@phyarth8082 people burned coal way back, be it charcoal or regular coal. They didn't start burning it during the industrial revolution. Especially in forging, charcoal is a staple, even today.

@andyhartley 11 ай бұрын

That OpenTTD footage is really cool and kudos to the person who captured it 👀😁

@thewhitefalcon8539 11 ай бұрын

Just OpenTTD? Are you sure? I thought it was Cities: Skylines, OpenTTD, SimCity, etc...

@pavel9652 9 ай бұрын

It reminded me Transport Tycoon as well, which I played a lot as a kid. For some reason I missed SimCity series. I think I moved into other games like Diablo, Quake, StarCraft, Morrowind, etc. Decades 1990-2000 were great for games. Maybe it is my nostalgia or maybe games were more creative back then. There is so much repetition and micro payments these days.

@rhards 4 ай бұрын

@@pavel9652 OpenTTD is Open source transport tycoon

@ricardoludwig4787 11 ай бұрын

Great video, 2 small points that I feel went understated that could use more emphasis. - using trains more for transport of goods in between cities; even diesel trains will often have less emissions than electric trucks due to emissions repairing road damage, and there is a lot to be gained in this area instead of focusing on stuff that is already hard to do or would be more difficult (like increasing energy production while becoming greener to power eTrucks) - there is a lot to be gained in investing in lower income countries, as investment dollars go a lot further and there is often huge areas to improve. I live in Brazil, and while we are doing remarkably well in terms of having renewable sources of energy, we have virtually nonexistent rail infrastructure both in cities and for long distance travel, and doing so would help the world a lot more than making traveling from Rotterdam to Amsterdam even better

@mikkelens 11 ай бұрын

makes me depressed that my immediate reaction to that last thought was that it could never get implemented in the isolationist world we live in, even when you're completely correct

@dellaisabella3655 11 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this video. Here in Tanzania, East Africa we have introduced the Bus Rapid Transit and the Standard Gauge Railway in the city of Dar-es-Salaam. The Bus Rapid Transit Is working okayish but is overwhelmed by the number of passengers. Additionally, the operations of the whole project are not really being regulated well. So, it's a good initiative, but we need to work on our systemic governance for innovations like this to work.

@dellaisabella3655 11 ай бұрын

The SGR is still under construction and I am interested to see how it will go.

@gabrielandradeferraz386 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, the thing about transportation is you need to nave enough of it

@PierreMiniggio 11 ай бұрын

I really like this way of presenting issues and solutions where you repeat what your source states and then attach your own affirming / contradicting / doubtful opinions right after. Makes it easier to distinguish what is what.

@LavaCreeperPeople 11 ай бұрын

How to decarbonise transport

@theenlightened5248 11 ай бұрын

I think you didnt talk enough about public transport for Inter-city travel. If we plan our city well we can encourage modelling for bicycle commutes as we can learn from europe, And these solutions can be impleted now without having to wait.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 11 ай бұрын

I love the use of video game graphics. Can't wait for the inevitable "How to Decarbonise Transport: The Game".

@scaredyfish 11 ай бұрын

I’m waiting eagerly to see if decarbonised/car-free cities are even possible in Cities Skylines 2.

@petrhajduk9955 11 ай бұрын

@@scaredyfish Car-free is possible with mods and one of the latest Pedestrian zones DLC.

@feikes1878 11 ай бұрын

Great video of showing the current options. It still leaves out our reorientation to traveling. You mentioned relying more on video calls to connect ourselves digitally over long distance. In my opinion traveling via shipping can be another solution. It currently takes around 7-9 days for a freighter to cross the Atlantic ocean from Europe to North America. A week of travel might seem long but if these travels are organized as a sort of ‘cruise light’ with work spaces and cheap accommodation it while also carrying regular freight along the way it might be the most carbon neutral mechanized travel possible. Currently traveling by freight ship is more expensive then traveling by plane and freight travel is still under the covid measures a lot of the time making it almost impossible to book such a trip. Besides this dedicated passanger travel across an ocean which are faster then freight is possible and can cut down travel by 4-5 days. Again great video and would love you to make a video about slow cross ocean travel!!!

@user-xsn5ozskwg 11 ай бұрын

I love this. Obviously we have a lot of work to do with slashing carbon emissions but I feel this hits the sweet spot for being practical, optimistic, and not blinded by techno-optimism (except for with aviation) or the notion that someone else will do it for us.

@superj8502 11 ай бұрын

I feel this doesn't emphasize enough how important it is to reduce the number of cars. Other than that, it's pretty good but i find the timelines pretty optimistic. PS: you didn't talk about intercity freight

@jasonreed7522 11 ай бұрын

Intercity frieght is basically just use more tried and true trains. (Even without electrification they are far more energy efficient than trucks) Generally you just need to change up the regulations for both industries, make rail easier before making carbonized trucking harder. (One basic example is to not tax rail corridors by the number of "lane miles" such that a double tracked corridor is taxed at double its single track equivalent. It doesn't occur everywhere but its an example of a bad policy/regulation hampering proper infrastructure.)

@MrSam2450 11 ай бұрын

Was a great video to help out with. Mega City 7 is now fully powered by renewable power electrified public transport, cars and delivery. Still working on congestion though. (Loving the little Easter Eggs hidden about)

@wiegraf9009 11 ай бұрын

City planners don't make cities, they just implement what they're briefed to do. This is why a lot of well known best practices are ignored when cities expand.

@thewhitefalcon8539 11 ай бұрын

And they're briefed by rich shareholders and Karens

@krox477 10 ай бұрын

You guys have City planners😮

@StreetcarHammock 11 ай бұрын

I’m glad you mentioned carbon pricing. It seems insane to me we try everything policy-wise except for making those who pollute pay for the damage they cause.

@AdamSmith-gs2dv 11 ай бұрын

Because they just pass the tax onto regular people. See $5 gas in Washington as soon as the carbon tax went into effect

@StreetcarHammock 11 ай бұрын

@@AdamSmith-gs2dv What’s the issue? Those “regular people” are the one’s polluting. They wouldn’t be taxed if they weren’t emitting the carbon.

@thewhitefalcon8539 11 ай бұрын

Because those people own us like slaves. Nothing else can change until this fundamental problem is solved.

@thewhitefalcon8539 11 ай бұрын

@@AdamSmith-gs2dvyes that's precisely the point. People are supposed to pay an extra $5 for every amount of carbon they make. This gives producers an incentive to lower their carbon use, get the lower price, and attract more customers.

@darthmaul216 11 ай бұрын

@@AdamSmith-gs2dv I dont care about gas prices bud, because my mode of transportation doesn’t use gasoline

@jelashford 11 ай бұрын

This was fantastic - really enjoyed how all the info is integrated into the 3D environment, so smooth!

@Crowstal 11 ай бұрын

I love how this is all presented in one well-organized video, hopefully we see these steps follow through!

@dubious_potat4587 11 ай бұрын

Iceland is a great example of why we need to decarbonise transport. Iceland runs on 100% renewable energy but yet still has almost 3 times the average global carbon emissions per capita which is an absolute bruh moment.

@dylancope 11 ай бұрын

Wow! The animation style on this video is great! Its cool to see you experimenting with new formats. Hope you get some boosts from the algorithm - more people need to see this content.

@thewhitefalcon8539 11 ай бұрын

This is gameplay footage from Cities: Skylines and other city building games

@Sekir80 11 ай бұрын

I haven't seen your videos for a while now so it was a fresh experience to see game footage. TTD was immediately on my mind when I saw then second monitor! Nice one! Oh, and the topic was great as well.

@alistairjohnson6061 11 ай бұрын

Good to see you back Simon. If you take into account full life cycle carbon costs then wind assist (WA) is hands down the most carbon cost effective form of alternative power available to shipping because the power is delivered free at the point of use. The cost is vested in the capture devices, the sails and as mass production kicks in the cost of WA will be falling by around 2/3rds while the cost of hydrocarbon and other combustibles will be rising above inflation. The International Wind Ship Association (IWSA) has calculated that if the shipping industry were to adopt WA across the board now the savings would fund all the other emissions reductions costs the industry will face going forward. Just saying:).

@thamiordragonheart8682 11 ай бұрын

wind assist is pretty amazing. I think a lot of bulkers are already getting fletner rotors as retrofits because it's so easy and effective. What would be really exciting to me is new build ships designed to carry kite sails from the start, preferably a pair with one forward and one aft so that they can be balanced to still assist when you aren't doing downwind, though maybe trade wind routes will come back for less time-sensitive cargo.

@Croz89 11 ай бұрын

@@thamiordragonheart8682 Wind assist works well with bulkers because they can afford to vary journey times much more, you have a stockpile at either end so you can sail slower or faster, or even delay departure altogether, to take the most advantage of wind conditions. Container ships on the other hand need to keep to a stricter timetable, even if the journey is slower to save fuel they need to have reliable and consistent journey times so the next link in the transport chain is ready when they arrive (JIT manufacturing). You could still have them of course, but whether you'd use them enough to justify the cost and maintenance is another question.

@thamiordragonheart8682 11 ай бұрын

@@Croz89 Container ships also have geometric problems with mounting wind assist because the container stacks are so tall. I think kite sails could work for container ships that run between East Asia and the US since the north pacific trade winds are reliable and not too far out of the way in either direction on that route. I agree that wind assist for container ships would seem to be a serious challenge on other routes though. The good news is that I think bulkers cover a lot more ton-miles since bulk goods are just so much bigger, so even if wind assist only works for bulkers that's still pretty good.

@Croz89 11 ай бұрын

@@thamiordragonheart8682 Probably better to focus on slow steaming. Container vessels are usually not time sensitive in terms of speed per se (if you want anything quickly it will go by air), only in terms of consistency. If a container takes 4 weeks instead of 2 weeks, a manufacturer can send out a container twice as frequently and the customer still gets the widgets at the same rate. It's a little more expensive, but if the container cost was lower because of lower fuel consumption, much of that could be compensated for. If however, the container may take 2 weeks *or* 4 weeks depending on wind conditions, it not as easy for the manufacturer to adjust, they might need to start stockpiling widgets which will likely cost more than an extra container.

@thamiordragonheart8682 11 ай бұрын

@@Croz89 I agree with your logistical argument but do feel compelled to point out that wind assist means that the wind isn't strictly necessary for propuslion. Storm survival alone probably requires that those ships be able to make nearly 20 kts cruising speed in calm weather on the main engine so that they have enough power to control the ship and stay off a lee shore in a hurricane. I think the idea of most wind assist technologies is that you turn down the main engine when there's wind you can use and turn it back up when there isn't so that you can take advantage of the wind without changing your cruising speed or schedule. It's also important to do that because bulbous bows only work at one specific speed. that's also why I specifically mentioned going between east asia and north America as the only viable route for container ship wind assist because it's the only route where you can get reliable enough strong tailwind in both directions for it to be worth the investment in the short term (a couple of years)

@user-hs3dg8jy3t 11 ай бұрын

Great video, always something that has puzzled me, glad you explained it so well.

@Kulei666 11 ай бұрын

I think you forgot in 11:50 about the possibility of nuclear reactors on ships. Designs existed and they are incredibly safe by design (safer than on-land reactors)

@drdurchblick6871 11 ай бұрын

By far the biggest hurdle here would be public opinion though.

@SchgurmTewehr 11 ай бұрын

Sounds like a big ship.

@alistairjohnson6061 11 ай бұрын

The problem with nuclear reactors on ships is principally that the full carbon life cycle costs including decommissioning makes them impractical.

@rrechyt 11 ай бұрын

it's normal, he always ""forgets"" about nuclear

@thamiordragonheart8682 11 ай бұрын

with all the new small modular reactor designs being developed, a navalized version for heavy shipping seems more practical than ever. The infinite heat sink of the ocean does certainly make them much safer.

@darkforcenix5465 11 ай бұрын

I like how he's using city building gameplay and flight simulator gameplay to explain decarbonise transport

@Kitty-ix5pg 3 ай бұрын

CS1 (not counterstrike)

@OldShatterham 11 ай бұрын

Great video, I really like the visualizations!

@plastic.spoons 11 ай бұрын

This video was visually stunning, I love this style and hope it continues!

@rxphi5382 11 ай бұрын

Love the style of the video, great job!

@janicew9 4 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you mentioned this and the cement video in your most recent upload on eco hope. I hadn't seen either one and Im so glad I got the chance!! Well done, both very interesting and very informative

@DengueBurger 11 ай бұрын

4:00 there actually is a point in electric vehicles WITHOUT decarbonizing the electric grid. Power plants are so efficient because they can harness heat byproduct from energy production and turn it into stream energy; something no internal combustion engine in a car can do. Hence, per gallon of petrol or ton of coal, you get way more energy (and thus way less emissions) if it goes into a power plant and then into a car, than straight into a car.

@laurencefraser 11 ай бұрын

Pretty much any engine/generator gets more efficient as it gets bigger even before taking things like that into account too. My understanding is that even if the powerplant was don't very little other than just running a Very Big generator (no idea if that's actually a practical thing, mind you, and obviously there are Better ways of doing things), it would Still be better, emissions wise, than having an engine in each invidual vehicle (better for maintenance costs too!) A large part of why electric rail has always been the better option if the money to build the infrastructure is to be had.

@jasonreed7522 11 ай бұрын

@@laurencefraseras an electrical engineer you are kinda right, before i explain how things work i will list the general efficiencies. ICE ≈ 20%, max is about 30% for diesel EV ≈ 75% Classic thermodynamic power cycle ≈35% Transmission lines ≈ 95% (means the grid is overall 33% efficient) Combined Cycle nat gas ≈ 55% efficient. Co Gen: 80% efficient (its cheating as it isn't purely electricity produced) ICEs work by exploding a small quantity of fuel vapors to shove a piston down and then convert the linear motion into rotational, it then goes through a bunch of gears before reaching the tires, just inherently inefficient. (I hope everyone here already knows how a car works) EVs instead use batteries and electric motors connected directly to the wheels, and can syphon power back out of motors to brake since motors and generators a physically the same thing. Electricity is inherently far more efficient at energy transfer than mechanical systems, hence the massive gap between the 2 cars as end use machines. As far as generation goes, most generators are fundamentally just spinning a magnet inside a coil of wire. Large generators use an electromagnet but small ones just use a permanent magnet for simplicity, all the different power plants are just looking for ways to spin the shaft of the generator. You could use and ICE but as mentioned they suck. The classic power plant uses the thermodynamic power cycle which extracts "work" out of energy flowing from a hot sink to a cold sink. Energy has to be "rejected" to the cold sink for the cycle to produce work. The basic installation is you boil a working fluid (water), run the steam through a turbine (extract the work), condense the steam in a condenser (reject waste heat), and then pump the 95°C water back to the boiler. (You have to put work in too) The ideal efficiency is based on the temperature difference, ideally you would be super hot and use absolute 0 for a cold sink, real world isn't ideal so the realistic temps limit this to under 40% ideal) Gas combined cycle starts with a 30% gas turbine (burn gas and use the exhaust to power the turbine, basically a jet engine) and then dump the waste heat into a classic power cycle and they get to double dip the energy from the fuel for an overall efficiency of 55%. Co-gen is a power plant that sells its waste heat via district heating instead of dumping it into a body of water or the sky. This is how they get 80% efficiency, its still only 30-50% electricity efficiency but they sell the heat as well. Otherwise the actual generator is the same between these power plants. And as you get bigger it becomes possible to chase after higher efficiencies, partially because the actual magnitude of the losses increases enough to justify the effort of recapturing or mitigating them. (Assuming they aren't mandatory physics losses like with the power cycle or aerodynamic drag on a car)

@eliaspohl5741 11 ай бұрын

I live in ljubljana, i can agree that good public transport does make a difference. A lot of my friends don't even have a driver's license

@thewhitefalcon8539 11 ай бұрын

I live in Berlin. It's even better. Maybe the best subway system in Europe because there are no ticket gates.

@BD-yl5mh 11 ай бұрын

I work in cold chain logistics and am considering a move to transport engineering and your mention of sharing delivery vehicles excited me. I started as a delivery driver and used to find that there’d be days where I’d all but follow around the same couple of trucks from rival companies to the same destinations, often getting in each others way and having to circle the block due to limited loading zone capacity. Ever since then I’ve always been brainstorming ideas for how to make this more efficient. I’ve thought of things like an app that all delivery drivers could run that would tell them if any nearby drivers had efficient freight swaps on offer (Ie, both drivers will be at a shared location at about 11am, and by moving only a couple of boxes between the two trucks they can both make 1 less stop. Let Truck 1 take anything Truck 2 has for Destination A, and let Truck 2 take anything Truck 1 has for Destionation B, and they both get to make less stops, and won’t be competing for parking space further down the road. Also that’s just a demonstration, the same process could result in the reduction of stops a lot more than just 1) Obviously, rather than rival courier companies fighting over the same real estate the best solution in this case would probably be socialise it all, put gigantic distribution centres for all freight types at the compass points of your city and centrally plan the delivery routes for maximum efficiency and utilisation, but if we must work within capitalism then I’m sure there’s still something that can be done in that direction.

@anno-fw7xn 11 ай бұрын

thnaks for the great video!

@krox477 10 ай бұрын

I love how you presented information in this video

@Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video :)

@BD-yl5mh 11 ай бұрын

I think the current housing crises actually play into this quite a bit too. As someone who’s been trying to find a new rental for quite a while I often think about this. Obviously what I’m about to propose could probably be done far better with central planning and socialised systems but even leaning away from setting off any authoritarian alarm bells, what if we just placed some gentle pressures on the current rental market that incentivised property managers to select tenants who worked close to the potential house? They’d still be able to pick and choose on all their regular things “do they play the drums, do they like playing with matches, etc” but once you’re down to 3 more or less equal great tenants, imagine if all 3 had an ‘ease of commute’ score. I bet there’s so many cases of two similar applicants on similar incomes who are both applying to any place in a 10km radius around the city centre, and then through the luck of the draw, applicant A who works on the southern end of the city centre, gets a house 10km north of the city, where they’d have to change trains to get to work by train, and applicant B who works on the northern end of the city centre gets a house 10km south of the city and they also need to change trains to get to work. Therefore, these two people who could have had easy-breezy 15 minute train commutes both end up opting to drive. It would probably need to be an opt in system, and it’s probably only applicable to people who know their employment is reasonably stable, but I’m sure there’d be chances to exploit this to cut emissions. Maybe even if you taxed rental agencies based on the commutes of their tenants? (Even this could see a few investors sell their properties and help with the supply issue a little bit) Anyway, I know there’s a million issues with this idea, but someone gotta be thinking of something right?

@Bellerophon3 11 ай бұрын

Great video. Love this style.😄

@thomasstrudwick94 11 ай бұрын

There's very interesting propeller designs hitting the market which are massively more efficient than old ones. The good thing with this is they can be retro fitted to existing ships.

@alistairjohnson6061 11 ай бұрын

They together with drive shaft improvements will gain you around 4% savings - every little helps.

@SisterSunny 11 ай бұрын

the visuals on this video are straight FIRE I love it

@remcon559 11 ай бұрын

Good video. I liked the realistic approach to decarbonising taking every problem and nuance into account

@TrebleSketch 11 ай бұрын

It's a pretty nice video and certainly helps bring together a lot of topics on how this can be done! Thanks for making a video like this when I can't always explain this complex topic to my friends xP Is there a way to download the full list as an image? When step 15 is revealed, we don't get a clear view of the whole list again. Thanks >.

@telanos2492 11 ай бұрын

As someone working in the policy space that happens to be looking at longer term planning for climate change right now, this has been very useful (and timely!) - both in terms of how ideas have been organised, and bringing the ITF Transport Outlook to my attention. Thanks!

@tadhgtwo 11 ай бұрын

Very interesting topic Simon.

@WingSun 11 ай бұрын

What about questioning if a travel is necessary ? Going in plane to see beach, coconuts and damage local ecosystems might not be brilliant :)

@martinovallejo 11 ай бұрын

Applies to goods too. Reduce the amount of goods to be transported and you'll make a significant cut on emissions.

@yoironfistbro8128 11 ай бұрын

At the same time, it's incredibly unfair if island nations are forced to become even more isolated while the mainlands enjoy massive improvements to their international high speed trains.

@laurencefraser 11 ай бұрын

@@yoironfistbro8128 On the other hand, the tourism industry does a LOT of damage, not just in terms of global emissions, but in terms of the local environment and, in many cases, the quality of life of the locals too. There's a benificial level of tourism, and then there's what most places that get enough to matter at all get: Far too much!

@laurencefraser 11 ай бұрын

@@martinovallejo Currently you get issues with small businesses not being able to get resources they need, despite being in the country, or even city, that produces those resources, because they're sold in bulk to large interest on a different continent (more profitable that way), leaving the local business to have to import the same material (actually, in practice, often Worse material) Also from a different continent, but now having to pay a LOT more in shipping. (and it gets worse, because there are acutally Other problems too). All of which would be solved if the local supplier would actually fill local demand and only exported the Surplus. One of MANY situations where 'free trade' is actually detrimental. Not that the old practice of constant trade wars and egregious tariffs on things implemented purely to harm rivals and other nonsense was good, but tarrifs, subsidies, and import/export controls Do have their place when used for the things they're actually Good for. (sort of like its generally better for infrastructure that's going to end up being a monopoly anyway to be under government control, but large parts of the economy in general really do NOT benefit from the impossition of central planning.)

@yoironfistbro8128 11 ай бұрын

@@laurencefraser I see you completely missed my point... We can't leave island nations even more isolated while massively improving long distance rail on the mainlands!

@lukasspeier5487 11 ай бұрын

One thing i think that isnt quite talked about enough is working towards more localization again, because if more of the stuff we live with comes from much closer opposed to accross the world out carbon footprint will naturally decrease.

@mikkelens 11 ай бұрын

global economics rely on exploiting inequality to outsource labour to far away countries. I don't think this is an easy fix

@gehrigornelas6317 11 ай бұрын

Awesome. Well done.

@bibliotek42 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video with really cool graphics. How do you do them?

@QuintonMurdock 11 ай бұрын

The technology to run trains for 0 emissions exists and has existed for over 100 years.

@dumbasgenius7227 11 ай бұрын

Yes buuuuuut that assumes the electricity is completely carbon neutral, which is probably why there is still an amount tied to it

@QuintonMurdock 11 ай бұрын

@@dumbasgenius7227 so just use carbon neutral power. De stigmatize nuclear

@muselp763 11 ай бұрын

Nice video. I'm currentttly studying traffffic engineering and we always say "avoid, shift, improve" to decarbonise traffic. Avoiding trips to be made is the most effective option. Next we should shift the transport option from cars, planes and ships to bikes, public transit and to go by foot. Last thing to do is improve everything that can't be avoided or shifted. It's really nice to see that in your video as well. It sure works for both: passenger transport and freight.

@Croz89 11 ай бұрын

I think focusing too much on avoid could be detrimental though. It's not good for people's mental health to be cooped up in the same small area most of the time, especially if it's in a high density apartment block in an urban area. I think you should encourage people to engage in a minimum level of travel for their own wellbeing.

@BD-yl5mh 11 ай бұрын

@@Croz89sure, but imagine if there were 3-4 great public plazas and spaces an easy walk from your front door. Arguably cooping up is what happens when you HAVE to get in a car to go anywhere worthwhile. I feel like an ideal set up would be something like: Most people in the city live within a few train/tram/bus stations of the city centre and commute to work via those methods during the week. When they get home they’re an easy walk to the shops, a plaza with restaurants, a green space, some sort of public sports fields. And then maybe on the weekend you take your car an hour out of the city to go to a beach, or a nice hiking spot in the mountains, and then you come back home via the supermarket, doing a big shop, bringing it home in the car, and then you’re done for the week, able to get any supplementary supplies and groceries by walking during the week. That’s your whole life sorted and you might need to drive for 2-3 hours per week in total

@Croz89 11 ай бұрын

@@BD-yl5mh The multiple plazas idea is only really economically feasible for high density high income housing. Those in lower density and cheaper housing will probably only have one location, if any at all, that's a short enough distance away to not really be considered a journey. And that means you're going to be very restricted on choice and variety, and that's going to make people feel boxed in. What you say in your latter paragraph is way more shift than avoid in my opinion. You're still regularly travelling, probably even more than a more car dependant suburbanite would since you likely have less space to do things at home and you have to make more regular trips for groceries and such, because to have all those things within walking distance and have frequent fast and reliable public transit to the CBD, unless you're rich or lucky you will have to settle for higher density.

@BD-yl5mh 11 ай бұрын

@@Croz89 the original video literally said “higher density” within the first few minutes. It absolutely makes sense. That doesn’t need to be dystopian though. High density doesn’t need to be micro-studios stacked 50 high. But if you can avoid a situation where any residence more than a couple of kilometres outside a city centre is necessarily a 4 bedroom house surrounded on all sides by yard, then you absolutely increase the number of people who can live without a car. 8-10 appartments in 2-3 stories, with one driveway onto the road is already using space way more efficiently than everyone having their white picket fence. We’re literally talking about change, and you’re saying “but nah change is hard” Yeah, we know that, but we’ve got into the mess we’re in by doing the easiest cheapest shit. We are now faced with the consequences of decades of ‘easy and cheap.’ Now might be the time for planners to go…. “Hmmm, maybe nice plazas don’t just have to be for the rich…. Maybe we can afford to spend more on parks if our roads are 50% less congested…” I also think for context it’s important to say… I’m an Australian. I live in one of the worst countries for urban sprawl. You may be a European, who already lives in a city that largely conforms to the image I’ve built up in my head of what would be good to aim for. Therefore you might be hearing my suggestions as over the top, like I’m asking you to do what you already do, but 10x more. In reality, my suggestions largely apply to the USA and Australia. Many other countries already control sprawl far better. Not perfectly, but better.

@Croz89 11 ай бұрын

@@BD-yl5mh For a start, I'm responding to the comment, not the video. If I wanted to respond to the video, I would leave a top level comment. That comment in particular was talking about avoiding unnecessary travel as a first priority in urban design, something I criticised because I believe that unnecessary travel has health benefits for citizens, regardless of mode. Excessive necessary travel can be detrimental, I do agree. Now that I've cleared that up, I think you underestimate the cost of maintaining a vibrant public plaza with lots of shops and restaurants, particularly small businesses. You need a lot of foot traffic to make it economically viable, and also a lot of people willing to pay higher prices than they might find in the local discount supermarket. That means if you want to support a lot of these things in close proximity to one another, you need both wealth and density. I can find such places in my local city, and unsurprisingly they are surrounded by luxury apartments in towering skyscrapers, as well as office blocks where commuters will also support them. Where you might be able to avoid that level of high income density is if you get a lot of tourists but not everywhere is that lucky. If you've got the wealth but less density you might have a nice plaza with a restaurant and a couple of shops but you won't have much variety. If you have the density but not the wealth you'll probably just have a discount supermarket and nothing else.

@violeviolaV 11 ай бұрын

Really nice video!

@thomasgray4188 11 ай бұрын

Step 1 build trains Step 2 build more trains Step 3 built even more trains Step 4 you know what to do.

@wolfgangpreier9160 11 ай бұрын

Good idea. You come here and make us trains! Inside the mountains. I like! 👍👍👍

@thomasgray4188 11 ай бұрын

@@wolfgangpreier9160 global Switzerland

@wolfgangpreier9160 11 ай бұрын

@@thomasgray4188 No, middle of Europe actually. Only about 30 million people living here. Noi biggie!

@laurencefraser 11 ай бұрын

There are a few other steps that should be in there too (or perhaps sub-steps?), but that does correctly nail down the key points, yes.

@wolfgangpreier9160 11 ай бұрын

@@laurencefraser No it does not. Imagine there are ares even in central Europe where there are no trains, never been any, never will be any. And still there are people living here. Now imagine the same for Africa, USA, South America, Canada, China, Asia in general. Only Russia has built their economy on the back of their railway system. No one else has done so. Railways are much too expensive for every day personal use. Good for transporting goods, bad for transporting people outside of very densely populated areas.

@SanguineRedGames 11 ай бұрын

Great idea using video games for all the footage haha. Another great video old bean. Keep up the great work. You're good and sensible voice in a realm of misinformation.

@dormikdelron 11 ай бұрын

The infographics are great, especially the custom ones. I don't think you should use footage from different games though because it makes the style inconsistent. But overall, this is one of the more visually interesting videos

@CaptainBlitz 11 ай бұрын

I like this style of video

@JimtheEvo 11 ай бұрын

I’m engaging with this video. Jokes aside I love the production of this video Simon.

@darkforcenix5465 11 ай бұрын

Carbon pricing only works in certain area like Europe, China, USA where train infrastructure are a viable alternative option. While in archipelago nation like Indonesia is really hard, because aviation industry are the most convenient type of transport for trans-island travel

@rjfaber1991 11 ай бұрын

You just need to take your wins where you can. Yes, travelling across Indonesia is only feasible by airplane for the foreseeable future, but high-speed rail across Java is perfectly feasible, and Java is home to more than half of Indonesia's population.

@darkforcenix5465 11 ай бұрын

@@rjfaber1991 Yep I forgot, it only works in densely populated Java Island

@aaaaaaaard9586 11 ай бұрын

As if the ccp would care carbon footprint

@jasonreed7522 11 ай бұрын

@@aaaaaaaard9586they don't, but they do care about energy independence and part of that is energy efficiency, and trains are just about the most efficient land based transportation mode. (They are also much faster than boats, and can be directly connected to the power grid so they can run on anything, not just imported "dino juice". Its way easier for the CCP to build something like the 3 gorges dam than it is to build islands in the south china sea and possibly fight a war over it because they are after the oil under the Spratly Islands.

@AdamSmith-gs2dv 11 ай бұрын

Trains are viable in the US? Clearly you havent been here if you think that

@alexspike7331 11 ай бұрын

One note on international ocean going shipping: oil and gas makes up a super majority by weight of moved goods. Simply weaning off of fossil fuels would go a long way to greatly reducing carbon intensity of mode of an already fuel efficient means of moving goods

@HobertMallow 11 ай бұрын

I would love to see an in depth video on electric vehicles and their pollution/lack thereof. I get that they're better than gas cars, but there's a lot of misinformation out there on how they pollute in other ways (e.g. through the material used for batteries). My feeling is that there's a nuanced conversation to be had there but all I can find on KZfaq are conspiracy style videos a la "the dirty secret of electric cars".

@jasonreed7522 11 ай бұрын

That's a very hard topic to do true justice too because you would need to track down so many different externalities associated with building, operating, and eventually disposing of such a vehicle. By CO2 emissions the EV will eventually always win, even on a 100% coal grid. (EVs are 75% efficient from the outlet/charger, ICE's are 20% from the pump, that a huge advantage) But CO2 isn't the only pollution to consider, theres also chemical like SOx, NOx, and whatever comes out of a cobalt mine, and particulate in the form of soot and brake dust. But you also get to some unexpected externalities like increased road wear from the heavier EVs or the fact an EV fire takes more water than a typical firetruck holds while an ICE does not. And at the end of all the data collecting and normalizing, you will have to make a judgement on what types of pollution/externalities are worse than others. This isn't impossible, but it is hard to do the topic true justice and provide an definitive conclusion. (Maybe it ends up close and you decide that african children mining cobalt is worse than american children getting asthma from the NOx of their parents ICE cars, just for an illustrative example of why comparing across pollution types is hard)

@o-o_pingu 11 ай бұрын

Cool VIdeo! Great idea using that video game footage :D

@samsawesomeminecraft 11 ай бұрын

I'm about to watch this video and I hope it includes a comparison of carbon costs to manufacture the transportation option, including the vehicle and the right-of-way.

@mrunning10 11 ай бұрын

Comparison to WHAT exactly?

@DrThalnos 11 ай бұрын

I do not fully understand the chart at 5:24 surely the bus is more efficient the more people that are in it. It seems strange to compare it to car and 2 passenger car usage without say how it scales with the number of passengers

@DRakeTRofKBam 11 ай бұрын

Best we can assume is that its some sort of average of passengers carried throughout the year/bus trips and average fuel consumption

@SimonClark 11 ай бұрын

yes I was surprised by that too! As said above, I assume it uses average passenger numbers per trip, you would have to check the OWID paper for the details

@wolfgangpreier9160 11 ай бұрын

Its a fact or reality that cars are rather efficient on certain routes. Cars - even with only one passenger/driver are more efficient than most electric trains according to a Swiss study. And in the city they are more efficient if the city busses or metros are not filled to the brim.

@HMPerson2 11 ай бұрын

There's a bit of unit mixing there, as "Medium car (petrol)" is in gCO2e *per vehicle km* but "Bus" and "Petrol car, 2 passengers" is in gCO2e *per passenger km*. I'm guessing that Our World in Data chose to include it to illustrate the effects of vehicle occupancy. (also, absent other information, 1 person per car is a pretty safe assumption) Also for buses, yes, the value is computed as ((total bus fuel consumption)*(fuel emission factor))/((total bus distance travelled)*(average bus occupancy)), as reported by the UK Department for Transport.

@HMPerson2 11 ай бұрын

OWID source: www.gov.uk/government/publications/greenhouse-gas-reporting-conversion-factors-2019

@Richard482 11 ай бұрын

Hope you're OK after the loss of your dad. Don't hesitate to get help if you need it.

@EdmondVeale 11 ай бұрын

Great video. One topic I think worth exploring that was missed is, do we really need to move so many goods at global distances? Can we reduce the level of needless shipping. Food is generally easier to answer with eating seasonal and local but other products are more complicated. One big factory that ships internationally better than many smaller factories closer to the end market be better?

@leifcian4288 11 ай бұрын

Yeah I use to play resource management computer games as a kid... Probably added to my sensibilities fairly well to a point. However then I learnt some tangible skills and took an interest in real world practice and conservation.

@betweenyourloveandmine 11 ай бұрын

I guess one step in reducing long distance freight transport is to incentivize regional production of goods wherever possible. And also probably to get away from consumerism more, for example by using more durable products, repairing things when possible, buying second-hand, sharing things among people and avoiding buying products that you don't necessarily need when possible. One less obvious advantage of that would also be that there would be less garbage. The disposal of garbage also creates travel emissions, often even internationally, when first world countries send their trash to developing countries where it creates health hazards for many people living there.

@GTAVictor9128 11 ай бұрын

Yes, we should switch from ownership to usership - for example having a communal warehouse with all the tools one might need in a neighborhood, instead of having neighbors own their tools individually. But also car-sharing. Of course, this transition will also require us to deconstruct capitalist ideals like "ownership = individual freedom, thus usership = communism".

@paisleepunk 11 ай бұрын

@@GTAVictor9128granted, i wouldn't be too peeved if this was the first step to a communist society, but still

@JustinSmith-ug9wm 11 ай бұрын

You should add links to purchase Firmament in the description of your videos and on your about the channel page.

@fragenzumprodukt4820 11 ай бұрын

Loved this video! Something about your way of explaining stuff is just so good. Also the visuals on this video are great.

@laletemanolete 11 ай бұрын

Good video. My city (Puebla, Mexico) is investing in public transport, something I thought I would never see. I'm seeing more and more electric cars on my city's roads too. Nevertheless, I'm a presimistic, and I don't know is this is just an illusion or if the government is really thinking about the climate and the environment.

@__-fm5qv 11 ай бұрын

The long service life of ships also applies to planes too really. As one plane can typically be in service for decades. That being said a lot of older designs are being retired worldwide as it just happens to be the end of their lifecycle, and they're being replaced with things like the 787 or the A320 Neo.

@supernenechi 11 ай бұрын

A thing with biking that is super obvious but still requires some healthy thinking is the sphere of influence that a business or other sort of destination has. I would wager that people generally have about a 10 minute limit on how long they would like to walk to somewhere before they take the car. This might be a small corner store, or a bus stop, but that's the same in the analogy. If a person walks at 5 km/h then that means there has to be a bus stop every 1.6 km. However, if you bike that speed goes up to 15 km/h minimum (or 20 on an electric bike) then you only need a bus stop every 5 km!! This also helps small businesses stay alive, because people are more inclined to "just go out for a couple minutes" to get to it and buy a small thing, rather than make it a whole ordeal to get in the car and drive the whole way there. A small corner shop won't function with only car traffic, because no one is going to get in their car and drive for 7 minutes, just to get a single chocolate bar because they wanted chocolate, but they would bike that way.

@Empiriarch1945 11 ай бұрын

Cities skylines, nice! And all the urban changes are literally what urbanist youtubers consistently mention about. Living in Jakarta, a city with bad planning and urban sprawl, having cities you describe is so desirable. Imagine not needing a car to go everywhere, less traffic, better air... I don't agree with you that trains don't fit Indonesia. Most of the population lives in Java, a small dense and decently flat island. Implementing good high speed rail will significantly reduce plane usage. However, interisland travel does require planes. The only connection trains can do in my understanding is Java Sumatra and Bali. Papua, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and the Nusa Tenggara Islands need planes. But by that point, carbon emissions from Indonesia should be really low and can be offset by algae, trees and carbon capture (I think?) Maybe planes can utilize hydrogen technology? or ion technology. Either way significant advances in battery technology or hydrogen technology are required.

@TheKingReto 11 ай бұрын

Maybe i have missed it, but when talking about improving fuel efficiency, you didn't mention the jevons paradox, which I think should definitely be talked about in this context. The problem is that if planes or ships become more efficient, they will (obviously) ue less fuel, making transport and travel cheaper, which increases demand, and thus also increases total fuel use. I am not sure about how much empiric evidence there is for the paradox, but as far as I know it has been observed after James Watt massively improved the steam engine (increasing the demand for coal), and when planes have become much more fuel efficient in the middle of the 20th century. So we should always have it in mind when considering improving fuel efficiency as a potential solution for reducing our emissions.

@laurencefraser 11 ай бұрын

Basically, it only helps if you also legislate against increasing plane numbers.

@robinrose8149 11 ай бұрын

Look at the ship Canopée used to transport Ariane 5 : it has wind propulsion and goes up to 17 knots.

@samedjones 11 ай бұрын

Underated video

@emmabird9745 11 ай бұрын

How about localisation of production. IE make things nearer where they are required and reduc the need for long distance transportation.

@alanhat5252 10 ай бұрын

Alternative fuels may be exactly the same fuels but manufactured from a different feedstock - crude oil is compost, baked & compressed compost, a well held industry secret is that you can put *_any_* vaguely-liquid or gaseous compost through an oil refinery & get the exact same range of things coming out, your compost can be a few weeks old, it doesn't have to have been underground for millions of years. It can also include anything that's come out of an oil refinery, captured engine exhaust, dissolved plastics, paint, tyres (with the steel removed), *anything!*

@sebastianlaplume461 Ай бұрын

AIRSHIPS!! Solves both the freight and long distance issues, as well as inter-island issues. Airships are a key to making a way forward. HxH actually demonstrates what a developed airship industry could look like for society and it’s pretty awesome.

@SamiulKarimKhan 11 ай бұрын

Video quality is insane.

@tiso8695 11 ай бұрын

Hey Simon, can u suggest the best Universities in Europe for studying Climate Science which has affordable Tuition Fees?

@Portablesounds 10 ай бұрын

Important caveat on the electric car CO2 emissions: the immense amount of carbon put into manufacturing EVs means it takes 3-4 years just for it to break even with the carbon output of a gas car. Even then, building and maintaining road infrastructure makes up a decent chunk of all carbon emmissions in its own right (concrete on its own is 7% IIRC and asphalt is literally a petroleum product). Im not saying EVs are useless, but we need an order of magnitude more emphasis on public transit than EVs if we hope to make a dent in our carbon emissions.

@Clyde-2055 8 ай бұрын

It’s a lot easier to stomach buying an EV than it is changing over to public transportation. Especially for older people! I always thought Musk’s robotaxis were a silly idea, but I’m starting to warm to it …

@elise3455 11 ай бұрын

It almost always comes back to policy, which is stubbornly slow. Of course this is unsurprisingly when each president, prime minister, etc. only holds office for a few years (meaning they'll prioritize more 'current' problems). And on the flip size, the dictators who hold office for many years are generally not elected based on favorable climate policy.

@Lilliandria 11 ай бұрын

How do we get started with being forced to go back to the office in places with bad city planning and little viable public transport?

@wolfgangpreier9160 11 ай бұрын

Inside our cities public transport works just fine. But not everyone lives "in the city" and i will never ever go back into this dirty polluting tight place.

@yoironfistbro8128 11 ай бұрын

Let me guess, Dublin?

@lordrindfleisch1584 11 ай бұрын

Sadly, electric cars seem to be the most used solution. It is the least effective, but it is politically the easiest. Ideally, governments increase investements into rail, but that has to happen now, since infrastructure takes a long time to build

@PorkyMinch 3 ай бұрын

What is the third game you used for international

@user-ki6qf6lq7v 5 ай бұрын

If I don't have to be somewhere in a rush and it's a long distance and there's a train available I might end up taking a train it could be quite relaxing and scenic

@TheCosmicGuy0111 11 ай бұрын

Nice

@scaredyfish 11 ай бұрын

Governments need to be bold, and currently even the best ones are only timidly moving in the right direction. It’s like granny with a walker, inching her way across the road while a truck hurtles towards her.

@thewhitefalcon8539 11 ай бұрын

Because you can't solve social problems with technological solutions. Governments are OWNED by oil and gas shareholders. Anything that reduces oil and gas usage isn't allowed to happen.

@collectivelyimprovingtrans2460 11 ай бұрын

Two things 1, I find some times that there’s more pressure to decarbonize public transport them. There is decarbonize cars which can be really annoying and add to the stigma against public transportation. 2, it’s not all that annoying because there’s maybe a tiny bit of truth to having the public transport sector decrease their carbon emissions.

@jasonreed7522 11 ай бұрын

Its also easier to decarbonize public transportation. Trains are often considered the "be all, end all" of public transport and they can be easily modified to draw power directly from the grid (either 3rd rail or overhead catenary). Electric trains are also typically just strictly better than diesel, they have more power, both already use electric motors, and they can go faster & regeneratively brake. By contrast electric cars are not objectively better than ICE cars, they may not have the emissions but they charge slower, need heavy batteries, burn hotter and longer, and you still have all the other problems of car dependency. (You can also fix their emissions by getting mode share change towards an already decarbonized public transit system and get benefits beyond just reducing CO2 emissions.)

@jameshughes3014 11 ай бұрын

What about a slingshot launcher for small electric cargo planes? Almost like the ones on air craft carriers but with a long steel cable. This is how some model and drone gliders work. a huge portion of fuel needed is just getting up to altitude. with a nice long, powerful slingshot, you can eliminate a lot of that need, and get more range or use smaller batteries in the planes. If you can leave part of your power system on the ground, that's a big help.

@jogabonito8989 11 ай бұрын

This is actually very clever. But not glamorous enough for to gain enough hype from the public / investors so likely won't be developed. You'd do well to work on it though you have to sort out the safety aspect of it first.

@jameshughes3014 11 ай бұрын

@@jogabonito8989 you're right about the glamour. But it could be something as simple as a winch, I feel like if someone did this, it would work well, and attract investors. In fact I bet it's already been done and was just deemed 'not needed' since gas was so cheap

@jogabonito8989 11 ай бұрын

@@jameshughes3014 The winch idea already exists for gliders so it's a tried, tested, cost effective concept. Great engineering solution. But from my experience, the best solutions are not the ones that always get the required attention. The world is more obsessed with over-complicated "innovative high tech" stuff even if it's the worse solution. What attracts more investors? A new untested battery technology that is 10% lighter, or a literal winch on the ground? Happy to be proven wrong though.

@jameshughes3014 11 ай бұрын

@@jogabonito8989 oh your right about that for sure. But i wouldn't put investors in with the general public. Some of them are good at their jobs. They look for cheap, effective, profitable. The good ones do anyway. By the time it's made it to the hype cycle, there's no 'getting in on the ground floor' left to do

@kingkal81 11 ай бұрын

Trips 0 to 5 miles: walk or cycle. Trip's 0 to 10 miles: Bus/trams or eBikes/eScooters. Anything longer: Metro or Trains. Cars are great as In-between vehicles especially City cars but shouldn't be used 247 for all trips. Also please write to the UK/EU Government on these ideas from you and Not Just Bikes. You guys could really help them and the world.

@4984christian 11 ай бұрын

Building denser cities needs to factor in corridors for wildlife, nature and air to move. Its more that residential areas need small centers with shops.

@leifcian4288 11 ай бұрын

Yeah you could have denser village clusters than an urban district, because people would have quicker access to open space without more crowded urban sprawl everywhere. The whole density things surly has diminishing returns on its benefits after scaling to a certain size.

@thamiordragonheart8682 11 ай бұрын

so the biggest gains in land transport seems like trains and trolly busses/trucks. local rail to/from warehouses and factories in addition to more long-distance rail freight capacity could easily replace most road freight much more efficiently in terms of energy and long-term infrastructure cost than any kind of road freight ever could. For medium-distance rural freight where rail doesn't make as much sense, overhead pantographs like trolly busses on major highways for electric trucks seems like the obvious solution because then you don't need nearly as big a battery to make long trips. less weight means less wear on the roads and less energy used. then high-speed rail is great for a lot of passenger transport. at 200mph/300kph going between cities by train is easy even at long distances if you take the time and money to set up the rails to and from city centers.

@CHD2000 11 ай бұрын

I think something that usualy is forgoten or brushed over is the manufacturing emissions. Especially for eletric cars atm as mining lithium and other components are very destructive to the environment. This also goes for at the end of the life cycle, how do you get these matetials back? Or is it trash? Energy storage is always the biggest issue imo and considering fossil fues are very energy dense its hard to beat(although engines aren't that efficient).

@xchopp 11 ай бұрын

Hasn't France already banned short-haul domestic flights (this year, IIRC)?

@hydromic2518 11 ай бұрын

Yes

@PunkHerr 11 ай бұрын

I hope there will be a follow up on "the problem with decarbonisation with intensifying dependency on lithium." Some solutions you mentioned are good on every environmental scale (like public transport, biking or denser cities) but other cause on other fields problems (to name another example water consumption/pollution). Switching to electric cars is unluckily a moving of problems. Cars are just ineffecient (even more compared to airships!).

@kevincronk7981 11 ай бұрын

Most countries already have bans or restrictions on short distance flights unless it's to some place you can't reach otherwise or it's a connecting flight. Banning short haul flights really just means banning short connecting flights, which are often necesary to fly from smaller airports to just about anywhere, if that airport connects to a nearby large airport which serves as a hub for flights. If you really want to ban these flights in particular, you either have to simply screw people over without giving them a good alternative, or build high speed rail between nearby airports which serms kinda silly if you're trying to move away from flights altogether

@laurencefraser 11 ай бұрын

Pretty sure that the idea with rail is that in most cases those smaller airports are replaced with railway stations. High speed isn't the only type of passenger rail, after all.

@dominik9137 11 ай бұрын

There is still a big step missing. Like reducing the amount of (long distance) plane trips, countries should reduce the amount of long international ship trips by either producing their needed goods themselves or in neighbouring countries. The US should produce their goods in mexico. The Eu in maybe poland, romania etc.

@Poctyk 11 ай бұрын

Eastern enlargement of EU + Turkey are already German manufacturing hub. They export more into Germany then entire Asia (minus Turkey) combined. EU economic model for the past 20 years is basically Germany buys/assembles parts east of Oder and sells to the rest of the world.

@josefn9078 11 ай бұрын

i suggest passively solar charged individual wings to move around, Ikaros style

@touyats1 11 ай бұрын

I’ll reserved a better judgement when I read the report, but frankly from Simon’s video it feels a bit like “business as usual” kind of report. Real co2 savings can only come if we change our way to move or we start moving less, I fear. And, nice to hear about investing in more public transit (and high speed intercity lines?), but I just hope this does cause infrastructure costs to inflate because now countries and economic areas (like the eu) suddenly starts pouring billions into them. And I hope “making transit more attractive” does not result in money being trashed just in buying newer rolling stocks and use it on crippled infrastructure (see Philadelphia) or build grandiose halts and use “heavy” infrastructure where it was not really needed (see the light rail projects in Los Angeles), or build transit tunnels everywhere to save surface space for cars and cyclists.

@laurencefraser 11 ай бұрын

you make public transport more attractive by actually connecting places people want to go and increasing service frequency. Also: the way you bring infrastructure costs down is by building more of a given type of infrastructure constantly, because otherwise you lose a lot of relevant skills that have to be relearned. Mostly the skills that allow delays to be avoided. Delays being a Big sorce of high costs. (Also, NIMBYs and dodgy contractors/contract handling processes are Major sourcess of expense both directly and via delays once the project's already started).