New answers tagged greenhouse-gas-emissions
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Burning grass is effectively carbon-neutral: the carbon dioxide released will get pulled right back out of the air next year as the grass re-grows. Cutting it and letting it decompose would also be carbon-neutral, just taking longer for the carbon dioxide to be released. If you want to stop the grass from being burned, you'll need another argument.
I ...
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I found a few different references for this:
10 g CO2e per paper towel (from the Guardian, 2010)
10 g CO2 per paper napkin (from Treehugger, 2009)
7.3 g CO2e per virgin paper towel (from MIT/Dyson study, 2011)
7.4 g CO2e per recycled paper towel (same study)
While several of these studies are looking at hand drying (for which I wrote an earlier answer), ...
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There is a 2016 report on the Carbon Footprint of Railway Infrastructure from the International Union of Railways [Union Internationale des Chemins de fer: UIC]. They express it in terms of a pay-back time: how long it takes to cancel out the emissions caused by construction through savings thought to come form reduced air and road transport. This begs the ...
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There is a 2018 study by microsoft which finds that "the Microsoft cloud is as much as 93 percent more energy efficient and as much as 98 percent more carbon efficient than on-premises solutions". The savings they are talking about come from replacing in-house servers with cloud resources.
I don't know of any studies which look at the impact of just moving ...
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