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Re: Show HN: Mission Emission – Calculate the emissions a vehicle produces

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Post by yellowapple »

sonofgod wrote: post #12
ymslavov wrote: post #2

Hi there, We at BetaPeak ( https://betapeak.com ) are a small team of dedicated developers with passion for side projects and positive social change. We're located in Bulgaria, which currently has the worst air quality in all of Europe, so this led us to think - we sure as hell are not the only ones with that problem, there must be thousands of cities around the globe that breathe dirty air, we definitely need to rai…

Can't speak for all metric users, but I found "mt" for metric tonnes just confusing; the standard abbreviation is just "t". Yes, that's easily confused with the imperial ton, but I think that's a less important problem.

I feel like a lot of confusion could be bypassed entirely by using megagrams (Mg) instead.

Re: Show HN: Mission Emission – Calculate the emissions a vehicle produces

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Post by yellowapple »

cyberferret wrote: post #29
izzydata wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is probably just me being ignorant, but I had to look up whether or not petrol was standard gasoline.

I don't think it is ignorance, just colloquial terminology coming into play. I am curious though, is the USA the only place that calls it 'gas'? I've lived and travelled through most places in Oceania, Asia and Europe and almost everywhere else it is called 'petrol' and places that serve it are called 'petrol stations'. To me 'gas' is an entirely separate product, viz LPG gas, which a lot of taxis etc. use at the mom…

Apparently it's common in all of North America.

Personally, I think "motor spirit" is a kickass name for it.

Re: Show HN: Mission Emission – Calculate the emissions a vehicle produces

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Post by craftyguy »

yellowapple wrote: post #62
cyberferret wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it is ignorance, just colloquial terminology coming into play. I am curious though, is the USA the only place that calls it 'gas'? I've lived and travelled through most places in Oceania, Asia and Europe and almost everywhere else it is called 'petrol' and places that serve it are called 'petrol stations'. To me 'gas' is an entirely separate product, viz LPG gas, which a lot of taxis etc. use at the mom…

Apparently it's common in all of North America. Personally, I think "motor spirit" is a kickass name for it.

I prefer the term "motor scotch".

Re: Show HN: Mission Emission – Calculate the emissions a vehicle produces

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Post by navane »

sonofgod wrote: post #12
ymslavov wrote: post #2

Hi there, We at BetaPeak ( https://betapeak.com ) are a small team of dedicated developers with passion for side projects and positive social change. We're located in Bulgaria, which currently has the worst air quality in all of Europe, so this led us to think - we sure as hell are not the only ones with that problem, there must be thousands of cities around the globe that breathe dirty air, we definitely need to rai…

Can't speak for all metric users, but I found "mt" for metric tonnes just confusing; the standard abbreviation is just "t". Yes, that's easily confused with the imperial ton, but I think that's a less important problem.

The only non ambiguous ways to use metric ton are 'metric ton' and 'tonne'. I think its best to evade the use altogether. I propose 1234kg instead of 1.2t.

Re: Show HN: Mission Emission – Calculate the emissions a vehicle produces

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Post by souprock »

sonofgod wrote: post #12
ymslavov wrote: post #2

Hi there, We at BetaPeak ( https://betapeak.com ) are a small team of dedicated developers with passion for side projects and positive social change. We're located in Bulgaria, which currently has the worst air quality in all of Europe, so this led us to think - we sure as hell are not the only ones with that problem, there must be thousands of cities around the globe that breathe dirty air, we definitely need to rai…

Can't speak for all metric users, but I found "mt" for metric tonnes just confusing; the standard abbreviation is just "t". Yes, that's easily confused with the imperial ton, but I think that's a less important problem.

The "metric ton" is really just the megagram, with standard abbreviation Mg.

Re: Show HN: Mission Emission – Calculate the emissions a vehicle produces

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Post by techieshark »

This is beautiful!

What a great example of technologists using the tools of the trade to do some good for air quality and on the climate fight.

Thanks, Yasen, Hristiyan and the rest of the crew involved.

FYI - I heard about this from James in the #news-discussion channel of the Slack group for ClimateAction.tech. Feel free to join us and introduce yourselves there (in #introductions) if you'd like to be part of an international network of technologists pushing for climate action.

Re: Show HN: Mission Emission – Calculate the emissions a vehicle produces

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Post by djschnei »

rahulravu96 wrote: post #52
djschnei wrote: post #15

Love it because my beloved Honda S2000 is one of the 4 examples under "sports car" :) Very neat project!

so we are averaging the emissions all the way from a 4cylinder engine to a v8(slk 55 amg)

fair point... but I can attest to the fact that the s2000 GUZZLES gas if you're driving it spiritedly (the only way to drive it).
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