{"id":594,"date":"2019-11-15T05:52:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=594"},"modified":"2019-11-19T15:48:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:48:40","slug":"co2-emissions-one-spacex-rocket-flight-395-one-way-transatlantic-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/11\/15\/co2-emissions-one-spacex-rocket-flight-395-one-way-transatlantic-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"CO2 Emissions: One SpaceX rocket flight = 395 one-way transatlantic flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-15-at-5.47.55-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-595\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-15-at-5.47.55-AM-980x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-15-at-5.47.55-AM-980x1024.png 980w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-15-at-5.47.55-AM-287x300.png 287w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-15-at-5.47.55-AM-768x802.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-15-at-5.47.55-AM.png 1304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/championtraveler.com\/news\/one-spacex-rocket-launch-produces-the-equivalent-of-395-transatlantic-flights-worth-of-co2-emissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Champion Travel<\/a> <\/strong>found that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The SpaceX Falcon 9 B burns 29,600 gallons (112,184 Kg) of highly refined kerosene<\/li>\n<li>3.0 Kg of CO2 goes into the atmosphere per Kg of Kerosene burned<\/li>\n<li>112,184 Kg x 3 Kg \/ CO2 = roughly 336,552 Kg of CO2 per Falcon 9 launch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/championtraveler.com\/news\/one-spacex-rocket-launch-produces-the-equivalent-of-395-transatlantic-flights-worth-of-co2-emissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One SpaceX Rocket Launch Produces the Equivalent of 395 Transatlantic Flights worth of CO2 Emissions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/11\/13\/new-analysis-shows-billionaires-dream-space-tourism-would-be-disaster-emissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Analysis Shows Billionaires&#8217; Dream of Space Tourism Would Be Disaster for Emissions, Climate Crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champion Travel found that: The SpaceX Falcon 9 B burns 29,600 gallons (112,184 Kg) of highly refined kerosene 3.0 Kg of CO2 goes into the atmosphere per Kg of Kerosene burned 112,184 Kg x 3 Kg \/ CO2 = roughly <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/11\/15\/co2-emissions-one-spacex-rocket-flight-395-one-way-transatlantic-flights\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}