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Re:Carbon calculator: taking one flight emits as much as man... by MauranKilom on Friday July 19, 2019 @07:37AM (#20477738)
It's not really that linear because taking off and landing both consume significant "flat" amounts of fuel.
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Re:Carbon calculator: taking one flight emits as much as man... by reitzensteinm on Friday July 19, 2019 @07:56AM (#20477859)
Also, fuel consumption is exponential with distance, for reasons similar to the rocket requestion.

Wikipedia has a cool graph:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#/me...

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Re:Carbon calculator: taking one flight emits as much as man... by titzer on Friday July 19, 2019 @08:13AM (#20477937)
That graph is not 0-based, so it is very misleading.
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Re:Carbon calculator: taking one flight emits as much as man... by simonh on Friday July 19, 2019 @08:58AM (#20478242)
Indeed. 7500nm generates only about 10% more CO2 than 2500nm. Not exactly what I was expecting from 'exponential'.
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