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Shinkansen is electric. Japan total energy mix is about 20% LNG or so.
Try over 40%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan
Renewables are aggressively scaling up and nuclear looks like it's rebounding some.
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Clearly office work doesn’t help with this. Perhaps the flexibility and the removal of the need for things like capsule hotels will help. Maybe towns outside of the large megacities will see a renaissance ad people under 65 will be living there.
As someone who did just that (went remote, moved to a small town with a Bay Area salary). I can say it’s amazing and highly recommend. That said, no one else I know chose it. You lose a lot of the city night life and niche things. Instead you gain space, more rural style hobbies, less diverse food (particularly if you eat out), etc. A lot of people aren’t able to recognize the pros / cons of such a trade. For anyone…
Not just talking about the urban=>rural switch specifically, but in the opposite direction as well, and when it comes to pretty much any major change of a similar nature in general.
I’m sure that’ll help the already high levels of chronic loneliness in Japan…
How about thinking that this will give them an opportunity for some mental relaxation as well? I live in Tokyo. The commutes are hour long one-way on average. Maybe it will give them more time & mental energy to explore other things.
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Now let’s look at my home office. I have a 40″ screen, an aeron chair, a nice laptop (MacBook m1), a good gamer mouse and mouse pad. All that without my time in the traffic jam. I’m refreshed, able to work better and my boss got more out of me due to this.
Since I’m a freelance, all this is factored in my daily rate. For one, my employer has the dubious pleasure of having me sit on a stool in his office that he pays for. For the other, he doesn’t observe me often, but get more quality effort out of me. So he lose. Every time.
Let’s be honest: I’m lucky I have a home office. I guess lot of people do like to go see their colleagues – and I’m glad for them. Now, can’t we improve the situation so that everyone can choose to work the way they’re happier?
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Try over 40%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan
Huh, it is higher now. Not quite 40% though, coal and LNG accounted for 26.5% and 31.7% in 2021: https://www.isep.or.jp/en/1243/ Renewables are aggressively scaling up and nuclear looks like it's rebounding some.
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Shinkansens run on electricity. Oil is mostly in the manufacturing and plastics industry, unlike other countries where domestic consumption is a significant share. (Tokyo power sector is mostly thermal and nuclear.)
They hardly produce any nuclear anymore. Natural gas is the largest source by far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan EDIT: these numbers appear to be old, since 2019 they’ve tuned reactors back on and stopped relying on LNG as much. I can’t find good numbers on recent data but in 2019 they imported more gas than any other country.
Source: https://www.isep.or.jp/en/1243/
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