Santa would save almost all of his carbon footprint if he delivered his presents by bus Press Release December 6, 2016
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Nuremberg, 6 December, 2016 – The elves at CheckMyBus, the leading meta search engine for bus travel, carried out an analysis which puts into context what the CO2 emissions from Santa’s round-the-world trip on Christmas Day would mean for the planet under the basic premise: What would happen if Santa delivered all his presents by bus instead of by reindeer?

This Christmas, like every year, Santa will be delivering presents to children around the world while leaving a huge carbon footprint behind. It is estimated that “good-ol” Saint Nick will release a whopping 35.4 billion lbs of CO2 during his 212-million-mile long round-the-world dash.

Rudolph and his gang are the main culprits of Santa’s massive “carbongeddon”. According to a study by the Norwegian University of Tromsø, a reindeer releases 0.11 lbs of methane per day with a diet rich in lichen. On Christmas Eve, however, they will be transporting a sleigh at least 320,000 tons heavy (assuming all children on Earth – naughty kids and Santa non-believers excluded – get a regular-sized Lego set, weighing about 2 lbs), not including Santa himself, whose cookie-and-milk-rich diet is sure to add a ton or two.

They will also be traveling 11,000 times faster than the speed of sound – at 8.8 million miles per hour, to complete the 212-million-mile ride in 24 hours. Including a carrot for each reindeer in all 1.5 billion households worldwide, a reindeer’s carbon footprint increases dramatically during Kris Kringle’s not-so holy night and can reach up to 171 million lbs of methane, which – being 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) – adds up to at least 3.9 billion lbs of CO2 per reindeer. All in all Santa and his reindeer will produce 167.08 lbs of CO2 per mile.

Considering that buses are the greenest mode of transportation with 0.19 lbs of CO2 per mile, Santa would be very well advised to reconsider his environmental responsibility and take the bus instead. Granted, delivering his presents at 70 mph would take a little longer. 364 years, to be exact, or 14.5 generations (at the accepted 25-year period per generation).

If Santa did, however, travel by bus, he would basically save all of his carbon footprint (35.3 billion lbs of CO2). That's about as much CO2 as 411 million Christmas trees would sequester. Planting 411 million trees would in turn be enough to cover 3,000 square miles (6 times the surface area of New York City). As if that weren’t enough, if Santa ditched Rudolph and his gang, he would save the CO2 emissions produced by 1.8 million trucks of soda (insert trademark name here); with 51,200 cans per truck, it would amount to a total 94 billion cans of the fizzy beverage.


Methodology:

To calculate how much CO2 Santa would save if he traveled by bus instead of by reindeer, our elves multiplied the total number of miles needed for a round-the-world trip (212 million miles) by the amount of CO2 per mile released by reindeer pulling a 320,000-ton sleigh at 8.8 million mph to obtain the amount of CO2 generated by Saint Nick’s behemoth of a trip. We then took the number of miles needed for the trip and multiplied them by the average lbs CO2 per mile of buses (0.19) and worked out the difference between them.


About CheckMyBus

The international bus search engine CheckMyBus shows real-time schedules and prices in more than 60 countries. With more than 400 bus operators and millions of weekly departures, CheckMyBus gives the user access to the world’s largest virtual bus network. Find bus tickets and more information on www.checkmybus.com. Download our app on iOS, Android or Windows Phone.


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