Your carbon footprint in Hawaii

[Wao nahele wahine]

[quote="ironyak" pid="362953" dateline="1781978194"]
Wao nahele wahine Well, Ironyak, we have some things in common: Offgrid, weekly trip to town, electric power tools via solar, many hand tools, no red meat.
Well, no offense, much of this is all just Puna 101 stuff, as most of all us have some combination of solar, EV, garden/livestock/permaculture, crunchy granola, DIY going on. It's only really noteworthy in contrast to the conventional mainland or Honolulu lifestyle. Out of curiosity, what are the neighbor's donkeys kept for - animal labor, companion animals, grass maintenance, etc?

All of my flights for the past 10 years have been for work.
The issue is that the physics of atmospheric warming don't care if we fly for work, or medical, or a weekend fling in Las Vegas, on stand-by or pre-booked. The physics are only determined by how much greenhouse gases are released in the process (roughly 1.4 metric tons eCO2 HNL to the West Coast, round trip - that's 1.4 million grams so the same as generating 1.4 million AI images by your earlier calculations - BTW, care the share your source for that info as other sources put higher values on the results?)

No offense, Ironyak, but folks out there are eating red meat...lol. We stopped for health reasons. Our neighbors initially got the donkey for their oldest daughter, who had taken an interest in horse riding. (Those same neighbors invited us over for hot dogs the other day...not saying that's red meat, or even meat. We declined.) When her interest didn't fade, they got her a horse. Their property doesn't have sufficient grazing area, but we do. Another neighbor's horse is brought to our place also for the same reasons. Both horses are just for riding. Apologies for the long winded horse reply.

Well...duh that flights have a high carbon usage. My point was that it was work related so it was necessary. It's for nuclear energy related work, which has a high EROI. BTW, I'm not judging anyone who flies for vacation.

Gemini was the AI I used for my image and it wasn't high res. Your link shows lower res images below 2 grams...being off grid reduces the carbon usage a bit. I was basically lazy and googled my info. ..asking for carbon usage for a Gemini AI image. I neglected to add that it was solar array power being used. That reduces the footprint more. For sake of argument at this point, I think stating a gram is fair. I'm sure you'll tear me apart for that answer...lol. Then again, if we were all very serious about reducing our footprint as much as possible, we wouldn't live out here.


After reading everyone else's contributions (thanks to those who posted), I will add the following:

We have a 2008 truck and a 1999 suv. The truck comes in handy for hauling large items. We help with clearing dumped garbage, appliances, furniture, etc along part of Government Beach Road.

I have one gas powered weed whacker with a carbide blade. Works wonders for taking down cane grass. A sawzall works well for small clumps. We also have a gas powered mower with a detachable cart used for hauling yard waste to one of several composting areas on the property.


Off to work on the property...