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How many trips will be made Carbon Neutral

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#271350 - 24/09/07 05:39 pm Re: How many trips will be made Carbon Neutral [Re: Triple B]
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Nearly every single product we use has a carbon life cycle. There are many methods of calculating the CO2 'embedded' in products you may purchase. I generally prefer to use a method that starts by taking a countries total CO2 output and dividing it by GDP, this gives us a CO2 per $ value for products made in various other countries. We then can fine tune the data by looking at individual industry sectors, and then if you want to get very accurate by assessing the turn over and total CO2 output from businesses themselves.

Most important to know is that Uzbekistan produces a little over 11kg’s CO2 per US dollar, where as Australia is approximately .58 (I don’t know exactly as we only have the data in industry sectors)

Thus using this method if your skis cost 1000USD and were manufacture in Uzbekistan we would simply estimate that they have produced over 11 tonnes of CO2, where by in Aus the skis would have produced 580Kg’s.

If it was not profitable to undertake carbon emission reduction then it would take a bloody long time to have any change occur. I personally agree and would love to see people undertake to reduce their emissions as a matter of principal but without feeding the greed no action will occur.

Pollution, as far as particulates have decreased since early last century, but CO2 emissions are increasing, this is primarily due to population and our reliance on electricity.
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#271448 - 24/09/07 07:27 pm Re: How many trips will be made Carbon Neutral [Re: sly_karma]
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 Originally Posted By: sly_karma
Whoa there. Where is the carbon saving in bio diesel? It saves on use of fossil fuel reserves, but it still dumps CO2 into the atmosphere. And why turn people to gas hot water instead of straight to solar which produces no carbon at all? Next thing you'll be trying to tell me I can 'save water' by using a low-flush toilet.


I always like to flush twice on those low flush toilets.
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#271451 - 24/09/07 07:28 pm Re: How many trips will be made Carbon Neutral [Re: Taipan]
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This topic should be in CV where it can be discussed meaningfully.
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#271740 - 24/09/07 11:58 pm Re: How many trips will be made Carbon Neutral [Re: Taipan]
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Yeah, let the calmer, wiser heads have their say...
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#271830 - 25/09/07 09:19 am Re: How many trips will be made Carbon Neutral [Re: sly_karma]
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LOL
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#271833 - 25/09/07 09:21 am Re: How many trips will be made Carbon Neutral [Re: Taipan]
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[quote=TaipanI always like to flush twice on those low flush toilets. [/quote]

Yes, it's sometimes difficult to get rid of those carbon emissions. Especially in Uzbekistan.

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#271841 - 25/09/07 09:35 am Re: How many trips will be made Carbon Neutral [Re: James B]
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WickedPowder, I am awaiting your colleagues thoughts on the abosrbtion spectrum and such... I have no faith in carbon trading till I see how this is dealt with. Your posts to date have only afirmed my belief that carbon traders ignore this VERY IMPORTANT factor.
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#272376 - 25/09/07 08:26 pm Re: How many trips will be made Carbon Neutral [Re: Red_switch]
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Travelplan has a carbon offset scheme, here is the carbon cost calculator.
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Travelplan's sales pitch commentary:
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Sydney to Vancouver will cost $122

I'm not trying to spam for Travelplan

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