Archive for the ‘Pollution’ Category
Car, car, car…
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A car burns an average of 1900 litres of fuel a year, while a light van burns 3500 litres a year.
About 4500 kilograms of CO2 are emitted on an average by every single petrol-powered car each year.
Pick a fuel-efficient plane, reduce carbon footprint
Fly, only if you have to?
The most fuel-efficient flight length is about 4,500 kilometres.
Fly direct whenever possible.
Fly to your destination during the day and not in the night. One study shows that night-time contrails create more warming.
Pick a newer, more fuel-efficient plane like the Airbus or the Boeing. More demand for such aircraft will bring more efficient planes.
Grapes warn you of global warming
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It takes one million grapes to make just about 1,600 bottles of wine. Grapes are sensitive little temperature gauges. They grow within a narrow band of temperatures and have very specific tastes in soil, sunlight and water. Rising temperatures are already changing wines, pushing harvest seasons earlier, raising alcohol levels, and fueling a decade of world-class vintages. By 2100, nearly all of California’s wine regions will become unusable.
Where will freshwater come from?
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Projected increase in production in six sectors will put a severe stress on India’s freshwater resource.
In 2008 the six sectors together withdrew about 41.5 million cubic meters of freshwater [a cubic meter is 1000 litres]. This is equivalent to freshwater demand of one billion people on a daily basis at a low per capita use of 40 liters per day.
All industries will consume 5600 million cubic meters freshwater. This is more than water required for drinking and cooking of over one billion people on a daily basis. Read the rest of this entry »
India will draw coal four times more than now
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Demand from the key six big sectors will grow fourfold to two billion tons by 2030. Home production of coal by that time will be about 1.5 billion tons. Demand at two billion.
Business as usual will have India import about 500 million tons of coal to meet requirements of just the six sectors. Even in low carbon coal need will be about 1.5 billion tons in 2030, thrice the current level of production.
