1) Let's say 1/3 of the population is old enough to drive - 2,197,272,850.
2) Then, lets say 1/3 of those people own cars - 732,424,283. (NADA estimates are around 200 million vehicles in the US alone as of 1999)
3) Lets say that every one of those people use their car to drive 10 km per day (total baseless assumption).
4) The honda civic (arbitrary conservative choice) puts out 212g/km of co2. To do that, it uses intake air. co2 is formed from oxygen in the intake air during cumbustion and exhausted out the pipe. The o in co2 is that oxygen, so the engine is converting oxygen to co2.
That's 732,424,283 cars x (10km x 212g/km) = 1,552,739,479,960 grams of co2 produced everyday by our very conservative estimate
Shouldn't take us too long to produce a nice planet for some beings who breathe co2 and love it very hot. Might even look like Mars eventually.
oh - since I wrote this the population estimate is now 6,603,323,454.
Here in God's Own, Telecom has a state granted monopoly on the phone lines. Thanks to that, and a control over the incoming internet pipeline, they set artificial upload and download limits and tiers which other "competing" ISP's have to pay for. Since they pass this along to the customer, the result is tiered access plans with download limits as well as an almost universal 128k upload throttle between all of the ISP's. Welcome to the future.
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Just a quick little estimate:
Earth's estimated population - 6,591,818,552.
1) Let's say 1/3 of the population is old enough to drive - 2,197,272,850.
2) Then, lets say 1/3 of those people own cars - 732,424,283. (NADA estimates are around 200 million vehicles in the US alone as of 1999)
3) Lets say that every one of those people use their car to drive 10 km per day (total baseless assumption).
4) The honda civic (arbitrary conservative choice) puts out 212g/km of co2. To do that, it uses intake air. co2 is formed from oxygen in the intake air during cumbustion and exhausted out the pipe. The o in co2 is that oxygen, so the engine is converting oxygen to co2.
That's 732,424,283 cars x (10km x 212g/km) = 1,552,739,479,960 grams of co2 produced everyday by our very conservative estimate
Shouldn't take us too long to produce a nice planet for some beings who breathe co2 and love it very hot. Might even look like Mars eventually.
oh - since I wrote this the population estimate is now 6,603,323,454.
Here in God's Own, Telecom has a state granted monopoly on the phone lines. Thanks to that, and a control over the incoming internet pipeline, they set artificial upload and download limits and tiers which other "competing" ISP's have to pay for. Since they pass this along to the customer, the result is tiered access plans with download limits as well as an almost universal 128k upload throttle between all of the ISP's. Welcome to the future.
I used to get a monthly copy of Aboriginal sent to me back in 86-88. Similar format. Great stories! Glad to see Orson bring back something like it!!