Nick Cunningham and James Stafford at the website OilPrice have a fascinating angle on the World Cup up today -- an attempt to establish that events (staggering) carbon footprint. Its an aspect of what will be the most watched sports event in history that hadnt even crossed my mind. Now it has -- a big way. Check it out. Tom Every time I turn on my television set, I’m using World Cup-related energy. And that’s just the start. Flying in teams, trainers, equipment, World Cup personnel and the estimated 500,000-plus fans will use enormous volumes of jet fuel. Add to that powering the stadiums on game days, moving millions of spectators around host-country Brazil, and transmitting the event to billions of viewers worldwide, and you end up with millions of tons of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere. So while the 2014 World Cup is going to be bigger than ever -- it’s shaping up to be the most watched, most lucrative and expensive tournament in soccer history -- it’s also going to be one of the biggest energy-consuming, greenhouse gas-spewing World Cups in history. Think about this as the music blasts through the stadium and the fans cheer and scream and the players race up and down the field chasing the ball: The 2014 World Cup tournament will burn through enough energy before it’s over to fuel almost every one of the 260 million cars and trucks in the United States for an entire day, or the equivalent of what 560,000 cars use in a year. oilprice/Energy/Energy-General/How-Much-Energy-Will-the-2014-World-Cup-Consume.html
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:34:36 +0000
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