Elon Musk's JetTook off from London, England, GB.
Brian Pierce MD@elonjet Would be interesting to see a bot that calculates his carbon footprint from all this travel.
SiliconJets@brianpierce @elonjet It’s very interesting you should mention this, as our account @SiliconJets attempts to calculate predicted carbon footprints not only for Elon Musk’s aircraft but for several other aircraft belonging to major Silicon Valley figures, including Bill Gates & Jeff Bezos. The bot receives ADS-B data every 20 minutes, meaning we may miss the takeoff and landing phases sometimes, but capture the majority/calculated carbon dioxide output per flight.
gunwhale@SiliconJets @brianpierce @elonjet
Great work! For Elon specifically, I'd love to see the carbon cost of his flight vs the carbon savings of Teslas.
For example: Elon's flight from Qatar to London is the equivalent of converting X number of Teslas to ICE vehicles for a year. Would obviously require lots of assumptions and estimates, but I think it could be illuminating.
@elonjet @gunwhale @brianpierce We like your style! It’s difficult, but we’re only 2 days into creating this bot. We’ll definitely add it to our backlog!