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I wonder if we might be underestimating just how much rich people can burn carbon though. A 1-hour speed boat run with 2 marine V8 engines chugging at it is pro
by lambdasquirrel 6y ago
I wonder if we might be underestimating just how much rich people can burn carbon though. A 1-hour speed boat run with 2 marine V8 engines chugging at it is probably one person's gas consumption for a month. Who knows how much all those private jets burn. All those rooms in the mansions, that need to be kept at some temperature level. You could probably sell it just by noting that Larry Ellison burns 50x as much carbon as one of the Mexican laborers who trims the lawn and rides back home on his bike.
In any case, there's probably some math / clamping functions you could use to incentivize the general population into doing their part, and that we don't end up in a perverse situation where carbon-burning is incentivized through fuel subsidies. And direct funding into battery recycling. Top-to-bottom this strikes me as a bunch of technology and math problems, which we can do.
- iso1631 6y ago> Who knows how much all those private jets burn A B737 burns about 750 gallons an hour for 200 passengers. A Lear Jet 45 burns around 165 gallons an hour for upto 8 passengers. If both planes are full the Lear Jet uses about 6 times as much fuel per person. If the Lear Jet has 1 passenger and the 737 has 4, the Lear Jet is better. A Lear Jet gets about 3mpg, with 8 passengers that's 24mpg, a similar fuel efficency to a Ford F150 with a single passenger. > You could probably sell it just by noting that Larry Ellison burns 50x as much carbon as one of the Mexican laborers who trims the lawn and rides back home on his bike. A big issue with CO2 per capita is that imports of CO2 emissions often don't count. If China uses 10 tons of CO2 to produce a dohicky which is then sold to a German consumer, that goes down as a China emission rather than a U.S emission.