Thursday, 7 November 2024

CO emissions

 Using on-line calculators

1 flight from Tarbes to London 226kg (920km)

1 person drives 1000km in a diesel car 5l/100km 234kg

In a year we use 2MWh and buy 1MWh.

To buy 1MWh in France, typical emission is 45g/kWh or 45kg (45kg) 

Put another way, I can fly or drive 180km (45/226) with electricity that we generate/save

The return journey to the supermarket we use is 26km, which is 6kg of CO. After 38 weeks of just food shopping our carbon emission is the same as a flight to London.

Our ISP reckons we use 3.8kg of CO per month = 45kg/year, which is about 8 shopping trips.

Internet globally 3-4% https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/05/the-average-internet-user-spends-3230-hours-online-every-year-heres-the-carbon-footprint-of-that/

cement accounts for 8% of global emissions. The IET 9/24

World-wide military operations >5% France 2 climatologue 19/11/24

World-wide tourism 9% of global emissions,  11% of France's. France 2 climatologue 9/1/25

Agriculture 19% France 2 climatologue 4/12/24

Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. The IET https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/11/29/car-tyres-shed-quarter-all-microplastics-environment-new-research-reveals


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