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Originally Posted by Jenni
Not if they move buses off-campus. Imagine all your classes being in TSH/CNH/KTH, walking from Main would be a pain. And getting to westdale? -- Though I suppose it only takes 10-15 minutes to walk to westdale anyways..
Either way, the buses are crammed enough as they are. Imagine all the buses running down Main.  |
I wasn't saying they should do it (although I really do think they should), its something they already are doing. They've been moving buses off campus each year, and someone recently told me they moved more off this year (although I don't live in Hamilton during the summer, so I can't confirm that being true).
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Originally Posted by jhan523
So, I didn't know what the old carts were powered by; however today I saw security driving a cart and it looks like they just bought it, definitively electric. It's very quiet.
That's the thing I hate about electric cars and similar machines. People are tricked into thinking they are doing a good thing for the environment. But if the electricity isn't from a renewable source then they actually aren't. I wonder if scientists have done tests on the amount of electricity required to power a car and what the mileage is of the car, then compare it to fossils fuels by taking into account the amount of electricity that can be generated from fossil fuels.
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I know Pen and Teller looked at hybrid cars and why they were actually really inefficient, but they were mainly talking about the gas engine part (that actually gets pretty mediocre mileage, in part because having two motors makes your car a lot heavier), not the electric engine part.
I did find this
opinion piece, but its not sourced, and only talks about how transporting energy from fossil fuels as electricity makes electric cars inefficient (although that is a good point I hadn't thought about). It doesn't look at the actual efficiencies of the motor, and I'd still take it with a grain of salt.
I couldn't find any sources talking about that specific comparison, but I think it would vary a lot depending on what cars were looked at.
But yeah, this was a bit of a thread derail. Fridges and such.
While the money Mac gets from the monopoly deal no doubt played a part in this, the more I think about it the more I think its just a way to charge for the extra electricity used by people with fridges. That's really the only reason that the price would be so high in comparison to the price of buying a fridge. And charging people who bring a fridge more would obviously be extremely hard to enforce (or so it would seem if sneaking a fridge into your room is as easy as people make it sound
). Making the only fridges available be from Mac would be the only way to accurately charge that extra money. I guess its slightly better than just charging more for residence, since even if there are a few students who don't buy a fridge they get out of paying that cost.
