Sunday, April 12, 2009

Sunday Quote and Some Stats

Amateurs accustomed to emulation made great places. It is the professionals of recent decades that have ruined our cities and our landscapes with their inventions.
-Andres Duany

Some statistics:

Now that I've actually gone car-free, I'll be keeping track of the imapct this has, in terms of miles, gas saved, and CO2 not emitted.

Week One

Miles biked: 38.52
Gallons of gas saved: 2.5
CO2 not emitted: .00756 tons or 15.12 Ibs

3 comments:

Karl McCracken (twitter: @karlonsea) said...

Are you sure about that CO2 figure - looks a bit low if you're saying that your car would have done somewhere around 16mpg. Cars with that sort of efficiency have CO2 emissions of around 300g/km or something like 1 lb/mile. So for your 38 miles, you're looking at 38lbs - 0.02 Tons!

CarFree Stupidity said...

I used a emissions calculator I found at:
http://www.carbonify.com/carbon-calculator.htm

And after running it a second time, you are correct, I'll update the post.

Thanks for noticing.

CarFree Stupidity said...

The calculator that I am using assumes 1.57 pounds CO2 per mile for SUVs. This might be higher for what I was driving, which was an '83 Toyota Landcruiser.

I am also assuming that the calculator, using pounds, also uses the short ton for its measurments, rather than the metric or long ton

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