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08-01-08, 10:10 PM
I've seen this question raised in LCF though not recently. Is it more efficient for 100 people driving 100 cars to a wedding or for one airplane to move the 100? The metric under consideration is the emission of CO2 into the atmosphere.
http://www.grist.org/advice/ask/2008/07/09/index.html
According to our DEFRA-based calculations, each wedding-bound car is emitting 104 kg CO2 over the trip; that's a total of 10,400 kg CO2 for 100 cars. If the guests all flew, they would each emit 184 kg -- times 100 passengers would be 18,400 kg CO2. I can further tell you that the Boeing 737-300 that United flies on its Philadelphia-Boston route holds around 128 passengers, so if the plane were full (wedding crashers!), the total emissions would be a bit higher.
Of course, the real solution would be to take a train, but not always possible. But still thinking that there are many culprits in the saga of C02 emissions.
http://www.grist.org/advice/ask/2008/07/09/index.html
According to our DEFRA-based calculations, each wedding-bound car is emitting 104 kg CO2 over the trip; that's a total of 10,400 kg CO2 for 100 cars. If the guests all flew, they would each emit 184 kg -- times 100 passengers would be 18,400 kg CO2. I can further tell you that the Boeing 737-300 that United flies on its Philadelphia-Boston route holds around 128 passengers, so if the plane were full (wedding crashers!), the total emissions would be a bit higher.
Of course, the real solution would be to take a train, but not always possible. But still thinking that there are many culprits in the saga of C02 emissions.