hank Wrote:
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> Just a thought exercise. Assume that it is after
> the Covid peril has been defeated and on a fine
> Summer day a double-header leaves Chama with a
> full load of happy tourists. The question is:
> Which activity created more air pollution
> (exclusive of CO2), the ride f our tourist up the
> hill to osier & back, or them driving their cars
> to Chama the previous day? (note: for the purposes
> of simplicity, assume all passengers drove to
> Chama and none took the bus from Ant.) (assume,
> lets say 2.5 people per car on average.)
>
> Anybody want to crunch the numbers? My bet is that
> the Horseless Carriages, in total, were worse
> polluters.
>
> Hank
>
> PS, yeah, I like coal for steam engines & see no
> reason tourist lines should stop using it. At
> least no real reason, not enough pollution to
> matter.
Actually, since this is hypothetical and in the future (date unspecified), the answer is the train simply because all the passengers drove to the terminal in their electrical vehicles.