In France they calculate how much Katy Perry contaminated in their 11 minutes in space and they have to talk about tons
On April 14, the Katy Perry superstar along with five other women made a 11 -minute space trip aboard a New Shepard rocket of the Aerospoacial Blue Origin company. This experience, which represents the first spatial flight manned only by women since 1963, He has nevertheless had a great environmental impact.
This is stated by the French media Libération. According to the estimates, the brief trip could have generated at least 15 tons of CO2, Emissions that Katy Perry would have taken eight years to produce. And these data could be even greater.
Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos Aerospace Company, claims to be more environmentally friendly than its competitors due to the use of liquid hydrogen as fuel of the ships. This produces that, during trips, rockets generate water vapor and not CO2.
However, a study of Libération himself discovered that much of this fuel is “gray” hydrogen, which occurs in Texas from natural gas. For this, large amounts of energy are used, being 75% of this obtained through the consumption of fossil fuels such as oil or coal.
Consequently, and using a report published by the Treehugger portal, each launch of Blue Origin is 93 tons of CO2, So each of the six passengers has a 15 tons balance.
To represent the magnitude of these emissions, it is estimated that, to maintain a habitable climate and not exceed 1.5 degrees of heating, Each person must broadcast 2 tons of CO2 a year. Consequently, each of the passengers has issued eight times more on an 11 -minute trip.
Indirect emissions
We must add that, to make these estimates, The portal has not taken into account the manufacture of the rocketwhich is usually reused, or infrastructure to prepare such a complex launch.
Lucas Chanel, co -director of the Global Inequality Laboratory of the Paris Economy School, carried out an evaluation of indirect emissions, and assured that they could represent Up to 358 tons of CO2 for each passenger.
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