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Elon Musk's Jet

Landed near Los Angeles, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 3 h 5 min.

1,242 mile (1,079 NM) flight from AUS to LAX

~ 1,553 gallons (5,879 liters).
~ 10,408 lbs (4,721 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $8,696 cost of fuel.
~ 16 tons of CO2 emissions.

@elonjet he is so wasteful with his trips. It’s disgusting.

@elonjet how does that compare to a typical SpaceX launch of another batch of Starlink datellites?

@enmodo

(1/2)

Cannot be answered correctly yet, but...

"As a ballpark, one researcher has suggested that per person, a flight is 50-100 times worse for the atmosphere than a long-distance flight."

Because:
"This is compounded by the altitude the gases are emitted at – a recent preprint (not peer-reviewed) study suggests that...

cosmosmagazine.com/space/astro

@elonjet

Cosmos · How much greenhouse gas is emitted by a Space X rocket?Space X’s rockets, have kerosene and methane-based fuels, while Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson zoomed up in a carbon-based fuel too.

@enmodo @elonjet

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...0.22% of the upper could be lost from three years of space tourism, 👉which could “substantially offset” the progress done by the .👈"

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