Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

More Damaging Than Trump

To the planet

These people buy coffee in disposable cups, EVERY DAY. Many of them driving carbon generators which they park inconsiderately in the bus stop.  Given the vast number of people that do this daily, the garbage and the carbon imprint of the manufacturing of the cups as well as waste disposal increases at an increasingly staggeringly exponential rate..  They create the demand for pipelines like the Keystone Pipeline.

Starbucks says it sells 3,861,778,846  cups of coffee a year.  Let's charitably assume that 20% are reusable cups  At 1.1 metric tones of carbon for every 2000 cups that comes to 1.7 million metric tonnes (3.7 billion pounds) of carbon per year.  And, that doesn't include the carbon generated by the polyurethane inside the cup when in the landfill, nor the transportation of the waste., nor the cups from other restaurants and sources. Nor are we talking about the volume of pollution created    We being very conservatively generous to convenience coffee consumers

 Maybe you know someone like this?




Thursday, June 18, 2015

You and Droughts

Things you might want to know when deciding...

...What to eat:

How many gallons of water does it take to make one pound?

  • Beef = 1857 gallons/lb*
  • Sausage = 1382 gallons/lb
  • Pork = 756 gallons/lb
  • Processed Cheese = 589 gallons/lb
  • Chickens = 469 gallons/lb
  • Eggs = 400 gallons/lb
  • Figs = 379 gallons/lb
  • Fresh Cheese = 371 gallons/lb
  • Plums = 193 gallons/lb
  • Cherries = 185 gallons/lb
  • Avacodos = 154 gallons
  • Yogurt = 138 gallons/lb
  • Apples = 84 gallons/lb
  • Grapes = 78 gallons/lb
  • Oranges = 55 gallons/lb
  • Beans = 43 gallons/lb
  • Strawberries = 33 gallons/lb
  • Potatoes = 31 gallons/lb
  • Eggplants = 25 gallons/lb
Eating a burger (without fries) requires 634 gallons of water Just sayin

Where to get your power:

How many gallons of water does it take to generate one Megawatthour?
  • Atomic Generation = 720 gallons/MWh
  • Coal Power Generation = 714 gallons/MWh
  • Natural Gas Generation = 100 gallons/MWh
  • Solar Power Generation = 0 gallons/MWh
  • Wind Power Generation = 0 gallons/MWh
Nuff said.  You figure it out from here.