This page is a supplement to my Flight Perspective Generator
that demonstrates the amount of global heating produced by various celebrities. I used data from the
Celebrity Private Jet Tracker1 taken on ,
which provides:
total miles flown (which I convert to kilometres)
number of flights taken so far
gallons of fuel used (I assume US gallons of Jet A, which I convert to kilograms)
metric tons of CO2 generated (which I convert to kilograms)
From these values I have derived data for each average flight: the 'burn' (kilograms burned per kilometre travelled),
the average kilometres per flight, the total CO2 pollution including that released during mining, drilling, refining,
and transporting the fuel, the amount of heat generated, and from that the number of Hiroshima-equivalents being
generated perpetually from the resulting greenhouse gases.
Fuel burned so far, at a rate of 0 kg/km:
CO2 released just from burning the fuel
CO2 released over the entire life cycle of the fuel (mining, drilling, dilution, transporting, refining, and finally burning):2
Fraction of a Hiroshima bomb's worth of global heating that is generated just by manufacturing then burning the fuel:
Time until the emitted greenhouse gases cause one Hiroshima bomb's worth of additional global heating:
Fuel burned for this flight, at a rate of 0 kg/km:
CO2 released just from burning the fuel:
CO2 released over the entire life cycle of the fuel (mining, drilling, dilution, transporting, refining, and finally burning):2
Fraction of a Hiroshima bomb's worth of global heating that is generated just by manufacturing then burning the fuel:
Time until the emitted greenhouse gases cause one Hiroshima bomb's worth of additional global heating:
2
Life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands-derived transportation fuels - by
Balwinder Nimana, Christina Canter, and Amit Kumar: Energy, Volume 88, August 2015. Using oil sands to
create jet fuel is far less efficient than Canada's 2030 target of 79.95 gCO2e/MJ (grams of
carbon dioxide produced over the entire life cycle, from mining through processing, transportation,
refining, and finally burning). If jet fuel originates from Alberta crude oil, it emits between
92.5 gCO2e/MJ and 126.5 gCO2e/MJ.