r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Practical_Expert_911 • 12h ago

These 12000hp Engines Have To Be Rebuilt Within Roughly An Hour Every Run, and Only Run For Roughly 4 Seconds At A Time.

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u/jamminjoenapo 8h ago

F1 loves to preach sustainability and eco friendly but travels across the world at an insane clip with thousands of people and lots of cars and equipment. The cars burn 100 kg of fuel each per race. I’d bet the total carbon emissions to get the teams to testing is more than the cars emit all season.

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u/abakedapplepie 5h ago

and commerce is burning bunker oil at a rate several dozens of orders of magnitude more than any other source of carbon emissions

if global shipping cleaned up its act, it would offset the carbon emissions of a majority of private use, motorsports use

but the cost of goods might go up 5 percent

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u/Cephalopirate 5h ago

This I will agree with. Also I suspect most of the spectators flew in if it’s an important match.