Our Carbon footprint @ home — revision 1
Time for change?
Darn it .. seems like our home carbon footprint is 38 ton!
I was just doing some simple calculations of the electricity consumption at home.. being curious, I equated the expected kWh usage to the amount of coal that needed to be dug out in order to produce a kWh.
Ok.. after puting some heat value efficiency on coal and power plant conversion; it appeared to me that we release a whopping 37.5 ton of carbon dioxide annually? Wowww — this is however, lower than the industrialized countries average of 80 ton (3 person household); yet higher than the world average of 17 ton (3 person household).
Googling, if we were indeed releasing that huge amount of greenhouse gas, we would need to plant at least 62 trees per person in this topical area of Sabah; just to balance out what we have created … and that is excluding the cars, that C3/C4 in cooking gas, cooking oil, meats, petrol and so on.
Ouch, a painful reminder. We can do better.
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