tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post3680485476263312542..comments2023-11-19T17:31:49.939+00:00Comments on Bristling Badger: heathrow: the uk's worst emitterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-43883250224645177392007-06-18T10:42:00.000+01:002007-06-18T10:42:00.000+01:00Oh my dear PMM, back up a bit.first up, you've chu...Oh my dear PMM, back up a bit.<BR/><BR/>first up, you've chucked in a superfluous decimal point.<BR/><BR/>Then there's the difference between carbon and CO2 equivalent.<BR/><BR/>'Note: the list gives emissions in tonnes of carbon. To get the equivalent in carbon dioxide, multiply by 3.667'.<BR/><BR/>That gives the UK 41576.2 t/CO2 equivalent. So, by my rough and ready reckoning, that means Drax and Heathrow combined are around one eight-hundredth of our emissions.merrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10959849087751101034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-16209990312448785782007-05-30T23:02:00.000+01:002007-05-30T23:02:00.000+01:00Hang on a minute...The link giving the country by ...Hang on a minute...<BR/><BR/>The link giving the country by country list reckons that the UK produces 152.460 million metric tons of CO2 per year.<BR/><BR/>You say that Drax produced 20.8 and heathrow produced 31.3 at a conservative estimate.<BR/><BR/>That comes to 52.1 million tons just from those two sources.<BR/><BR/>Are you really saying that one power station and one airport combined produce a third of the entire carbon output of the UK?<BR/><BR/>Personally, I find this doesn't quite ring true. There are many power stations, and many airports. There are supermarkets heating their freezers with their lighing. There are a squillion cars vans lorries trains trams and motorbikes putting their share of filth and CO2 into the sky.<BR/><BR/>If the figures add up (and I'm sure they do, I just find them extremely surprising) then closing these two facilities would instantly reduce the UK's carbon footprint by a third.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com