Carbon calculator.
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ollie989898
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What's the best free software currently available to calculate the dreaded footprint?
We're carbon negative here, and always have been, but to profit from this it seems we shall need to put all the data into a "pdf" format, whatever that may be.
You can just type your stuff into word and convert the document into a PDF file to email off? You don't need any serious software to do this?
But how to convert acres of trees and hedges and crops and tonnes of fertilizer into net carbon?
https://coolfarmtool.org/ is good, but doesn't take into account sequestration if you've livestock
Old Boar
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- West Wales
I did one of these I came across on the net. I dont go on holiday, do very little mileage in an elderly car, dont change household appliances, grow my own food, dont use much electricity etc etc.
Apparently my carbon footprint was high because I eat beef and dairy. The beef comes from just outside and the dairy from the nearby town. I was much higher than someone who ate avocado, drank soya milk, and flew to hot places once a year. I would say it is all bo**ocks but that would now be considered sexist...
Apparently my carbon footprint was high because I eat beef and dairy. The beef comes from just outside and the dairy from the nearby town. I was much higher than someone who ate avocado, drank soya milk, and flew to hot places once a year. I would say it is all bo**ocks but that would now be considered sexist...
Does it deal with cyclical methane correctly?
I already know the answer.
What's needed is one that does. They'll clean up on here.
Edit: Actually, you know what? Maybe this is how we deal with this. Get our own calculator up and running that actually involves proper science. Keeps all boxes ticked while actually making most of us carbon neutral or negative.
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Excellent.
farmerm
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- Shropshire
That calculator seems a bit one sided, I accept when I buy in diesel I buy in carbon but what fertiliser do you buy in that contains carbon? You didn't produce the fertiliser should your calculation take responsibility for the emissions generated in its production or should they belong squarely at the manufacturer? If we are to take reponsiblity for carbon upstream the calculator must also credit for the carbon that we have sequestered in the products leaving our farms, 400kg of carbon in a tonne of wheat... just have to pity the poor producer who then has to take the responsibility of the carbon emissions from the consumption of this grain!
Seems to work the other way round in electricity generation - Drax burns millions of tons of imported woodchip but drew £800m of taxpayers' money last year for being carbon neutral.
farmerm
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- Shropshire
Everyone arranged the furniture with whatever calculator they can get away with!
I’ve just been reading about drax and I find it very confusing, it was saying wood is dirtier than coal apart from offsetting the wood
who do you believe with all these predictions?
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- sw scotland
who do you believe with all these predictions?
Nobody at present. The science and the calculations will change. We have become fixated on Co2 for its role in trapping heat which will not work if 10 billion keep producing the heat.
Nobody at present. The science and the calculations will change. We have become fixated on Co2 for its role in trapping heat which will not work if 10 billion keep producing the heat.
It's surely high time for some, admittedly rather difficult, actuarial honesty finally to break to the surface on "offset".
Currently, there's shades here of the GFC (Great Financial Crash) when different entities were each allowed to "mark to model" with the result that, when correlated, 2+2 became -5.
The offset for Drax alone will require the equivalent of the entire UK being planted up by 2050, and then some.
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- Scotland
The science will not change. Increased Methane and Carbon Dioxide levels in the atmosphere are driving climate change.
Its fact.
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- Essex
You can work it out yourself. Most things are accessible on the internet. The big ones are cultivations, approx 3 tonnes co2 per ha per year, fertiliser 5.6 kg of co2 per kilo n. Then you have to work out how much you are sequestering; for instance, your 8 tonne wheat crop is all carbon out of the atmosphere (unsure of the ratio) The miller or baker probably gets the credit for that though!
I should like to.
It's rapidly getting to the stage when always having been carbon negative is widely disbelieved in the pub without being able to port one's supporting data electronically.
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- Essex
The difficulty is determining how much carbon your crops are pumping into the ground. I think by not disturbing the soil you put about a tonne into the soil. Whether that's co2 equivalent, som or pure carbon, I don't know.
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- Herefordshire
It seems to me there are many interpretations of what a carbon calculator is or what it should include.All to suit ones own agenda,of course.
I would formulate your own if I was you.Just include what you want and exclude the rest.I remember going to a meeting with a main supermarket with regards carbon footprints and one of their representatives told us of a major food supplier that conveniently omitted parts of their production that increased emissions.
I would formulate your own if I was you.Just include what you want and exclude the rest.I remember going to a meeting with a main supermarket with regards carbon footprints and one of their representatives told us of a major food supplier that conveniently omitted parts of their production that increased emissions.