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1) We're polishing the brass on the Titanic. Wait till most people in China, or even half get cars. We're .........Compare all those bikes going around the track, all the people showing up to watch to ONE morning of rush hour traffic in the city you live in. MotoGP is a drop in the bucket, a very, very, small drop.



2) (And I'm not pointing the finger at you here Tim). You want the number one waste of resources on this planet? War. Waste of every resourse imaginable. Now leave me alone and let me watch the colourfull objects go around in very confusing circles. Go pick on a real problem. And again, Tim I'm sure you're nice, that wasn't directed at you, more at the public at large who seem to have lost prespective on this envirnmental thing.
 
Hello Tim,maybe you need to post the questionare on an F1 site as they seem to have their finger on the pulse of things as regards `green` engines etc.Good luck.
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I ran some numbers on the sources of carbon emissions from MotoGP, and have a very good idea where the vast part of the environmental impact of MotoGP is. Anyone like to take guess at where that is?
 
Kropotkin said:
I ran some numbers on the sources of carbon emissions from MotoGP, and have a very good idea where the vast part of the environmental impact of MotoGP is. Anyone like to take guess at where that is?
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I'm guessing it's the same as F1--transportation of the circus. One flight to Malaysia (three 747s, right?) probably uses more fuel and emits more carbon than all of the races combined. Curing carbon brakes for 6 months is probably the most wasteful component, imo.
 
mylexicon said:
I'm guessing it's the same as F1--transportation of the circus. One flight to Malaysia (three 747s, right?) probably uses more fuel and emits more carbon than all of the races combined. Curing carbon brakes for 6 months is probably the most wasteful component, imo.
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Wrong. Transportation is a much larger component than the fuel burned in racing and practice, but it is insignificant in comparison to the largest environmental burden.
 
Kropotkin said:
Wrong. Transportation is a much larger component than the fuel burned in racing and practice, but it is insignificant in comparison to the largest environmental burden.
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I would say it's either the amount of petroleum jelly Uccio uses on Rossi's bunghole or the amount of methane gas spewed from the lips of Rossi fans around the globe.
 
bluegreen said:
Fans?
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Very close. It's everyone watching at home. Dorna says that 200 million people watch every MotoGP race (which is probably a horseshit figure, but still), and if you work out how many TVs that is, and how much juice they are using, it adds up to around 95% of the total energy use by the sport.



By that measure, American Idol is far more environmentally harmful than MotoGP.
 
Kropotkin said:
Very close. It's everyone watching at home. Dorna says that 200 million people watch every MotoGP race (which is probably a horseshit figure, but still), and if you work out how many TVs that is, and how much juice they are using, it adds up to around 95% of the total energy use by the sport.



By that measure, American Idol is far more environmentally harmful than MotoGP.
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Yeah but ......... if we weren't watching MGP we would be watching something else ......... or out riding. and hence using more of the earths resources.



Oh and ....... I have gone electric for my televisual receiving device
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BarryMachine said:
Yeah but ......... if we weren't watching MGP we would be watching something else
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That is very much the point. The environmental impact of MotoGP is very close to zero. If there was no MotoGP, we'd be watching something else, and using just as many resources (electricity is overwhelmingly produced from fossil fuels).
 
Kropotkin said:
Very close. It's everyone watching at home. Dorna says that 200 million people watch every MotoGP race (which is probably a horseshit figure, but still), and if you work out how many TVs that is, and how much juice they are using, it adds up to around 95% of the total energy use by the sport.



By that measure, American Idol is far more environmentally harmful than MotoGP.
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I guess Dorna is enviornmentally concious. That must be why they cut the motogp.com feed in the middle of each race to save global electricity.
 
So me watching simultaneously on the .com and my tv, really bad. Man I am such an ...!







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Sorry dude!
 

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