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Trains transports at 0.41 MJ/t·km. If the person weights 0.1t it would take a train packed full of people 41MJ per person to transport them 100km, or a bit more than one litre of gasoline. I don't think it is possible to go significantly below that without transporting them on mag rails or vacuum pipes.

Secondly we talked about 0.005l cars, not 0.05l, so it would be a few hundreds times more efficient than train transportation.



Bicycles are probably a bit more efficient than trains.


Its about the same, you burn several thousand calories or a few tens of mega-joules biking 100 km.


my strava says 100km cycling is ~3370kcal




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