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The average emissions for a car is 4.6 tons of co2. The average carbon intensity of U.S. electricity generation is around 384 grams of co2 per kWh. 1230000 * 0.
by pingou 11mo ago
The average emissions for a car is 4.6 tons of co2.
The average carbon intensity of U.S. electricity generation is around 384 grams of co2 per kWh.
1230000 * 0.384 / 1000 = 472 tons.
But 185000 cars emit 851000 tons so 500 tons is like a rounding error, unless I am mistaken.
- hinkley 11mo agoEither it’s a full on hallucination or they intend the power to be used to charge electric vehicles. Which is a stretch because solar parking isn’t going to sell that many electric vehicles. It will sell some, but not that many more.
- Dylan16807 11mo ago1.23GWh is enough to power a few hundred cars, not 185 thousand.
- _aavaa_ 11mo agoYeah the longer I look at it the less their numbers make sense. I also did a double take, “surely it’s not 4.6 tonnes per year”. But it is. If that came out as a liquid rather than a gas, we’d have stopped burning fossil fuels by now.