Conclusion: Turn off power to everyone in Ohio

Day 4 in Central Ohio with no power to hundreds of thousands of residents.  But there's an upside.  From the Columbus Dispatch:

As thousands of Ohioans go through another day without power, perhaps there's a silver, or even green, lining.

Their carbon footprints -- the measure of carbon dioxide they contribute to global warming -- is much, much smaller.

The typical Ohio house uses an average of 31 kilowatt hours of electricity a day, according to estimates from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Every day without power cuts an estimated 65 pounds of carbon dioxide produced by a coal-fired power plant.

Spread that across the nearly 2 million homes and businesses across Ohio that lost electricity Sunday, and the reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions was at least 124.3 million pounds.

I'm speechless.

Comments

[Mike Giberson]

The next step is for them to realize that repairing the damage will both result in greenhouse gas emissions directly and enable thousands of Ohioans to resume their regular high-carbon-emitting lifestyles.

Stop the madness!

[odograph]

Are you upset because AGW seems to be accepted in Ohio, or because they spill ink on a tenuous silver lining?

[joshua corning]

They should write an upside about North Korea's carbon footprint.

http://blogan.net/blog/wp-content/2006/10/korea2.jpg

[Camey Willams]

This is true.

[Matt]

I love Ohio. My family is still without power up there, but we do have a larger footprint than any region in the country. At least things haven't broken down into riots...I just got word that some of my friends back in Dayton just got power back.

[petter thomson]

If something has benefits there so that has losses as well. Here is the same situation; I simply can say that “there is no gain without pain”. And if the people can live without electricity then it’s Okay. And it’s all up to the residents of Ohio what they want?

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[Alan Dove]

You know, there's some appeal to this logic. By extension, global food shortages could help us deal with this pesky obesity epidemic.

[Jim]

Hey, think of the carbon reduction if we simply shut off power to every city larger than say, 10,000 people!

Yours first...

[Max]

Hi
he typical Ohio house uses an average of 31 kilowatt hours of electricity a day, according to estimates from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Every day without power cuts an estimated 65 pounds of carbon dioxide produced by a coal-fired power plant.

Max

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