Post #2391034
2025-10-18 11:01 UTC
@cypherhippie@chaos.social @lalonsander@chaos.social Furthermore, if I interpret this correctly, the weight of vehicles seems to contribute to their calculated efficiency. Since the main purpose of vehicles is transportation, I believe that energy consumption should be divided by payload rather than mass.
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@wesdym@mastodon.social 2025-10-19 14:03
@flxtr@social.tchncs.de That's one available angle of consideration, but in this case of comparison, I must disagree. What is a bee or walking human's 'payload', compared to the whole system? I get what you're saying, and I get the point of it, but in this case, I think that creates an inherently unfair basis of comparison, because we can discretely distinguish a machine's 'payload' from the machine itself, but we can't do that for animals.