Carbon Footprint coursework Booted!
Finally finished. When I heard we were supposed to spend 65 hrs on it, I didn't believe it. Now after spending 6 days in front of 2 computer screens (emitting 10.8kg of CO2 to power them!) I have finished. Rob has celebrated by turning on UD to burn even more energy (but saving lives in the process).
Conclusions I can draw, are that the sacrifices to reduce my personal Carbon footprint from 909kg to 243kg, aren't huge at all. No I don't have to eat lentils and drink water, I can keep my meat, I can even keep the car. Though the car has to be switched for a 47mpg Clio 1.2 that runs on LPG (and crammed full of ppl at all times).
This project has been so engulfing, I even calculated that my bath last night caused 85g of Carbon emissions! Yes, all the 2nd year engineers are now brainwashed into tree hugging lunatics.
Nathaniel Ho
12 Dec 2005 16:49
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Christopher Hinds
Switch for a 50mpg Golf 2.0TDI – faster by far, and still less CO2 than a 1.2 LPG Clio (at least taking into account refining emissions too) and probably just on exhaust CO2 thinking about it.
12 Dec 2005, 19:21
Nathaniel Ho
Yeah I did investigate that, i put that in my project. It was going to be a A3 2.0TDI, but the CO2 savings were just 26%. I am supposed to be a come across as a tree hugger! I ignored LPG refining due to my er… ignorance. LPG gave the figure of 78% less CO2 that the course markers like to see. But am seriously tempted on a cost basis to get a 2nd hand LPG Focus…
Shame all the oil's gone up in smoke 3 junctions up the M1 :( wasteful
12 Dec 2005, 20:30
Christopher Hinds
I personally wonder how that will affect our ability to meet Kyoto style agreements since it's technically an industrial emission…
12 Dec 2005, 22:40
coco
u r a gobbe
08 Jun 2006, 09:21
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