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<p>Calculating the carbon footprint of our own lab work was an important goal for us, as it is the only way off actually determining the most influencing factors regarding GHG emissions. While there are a lot of online tools to calculate your personal carbon footprint or the carbon footprint of your travel by plane, train or bus, we found nothing comparable for the GHG of lab work. Since we set our minds on determining the factors that add most to the carbon footprint of our lab work there was no way around creating a <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:TU_Dresden/iGEM-goes-green/Resources" style="color: green">tool</a> by ourselves. </p> | <p>Calculating the carbon footprint of our own lab work was an important goal for us, as it is the only way off actually determining the most influencing factors regarding GHG emissions. While there are a lot of online tools to calculate your personal carbon footprint or the carbon footprint of your travel by plane, train or bus, we found nothing comparable for the GHG of lab work. Since we set our minds on determining the factors that add most to the carbon footprint of our lab work there was no way around creating a <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:TU_Dresden/iGEM-goes-green/Resources" style="color: green">tool</a> by ourselves. </p> | ||
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+ | <figcaption><b>Figure 1:</b> The carbon footprint of our lab work</figcaption> | ||
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− | Figure | + | <p>Figure 1 gives an overview on the GHG emissions that we calculated for our own lab work. |
− | The influence of scope 2 on the carbon footprint depends on the source of electricity and warmth. You can only prevent GHG emissions by using | + | The influence of scope 2 on the carbon footprint depends on the source of electricity and warmth. You can only prevent GHG emissions by using energy from renewable sources. Otherwise providers cause GHG emissions while producing electricity and warmth. Thus, it is possible to translate the energyconsumption into GHG emissions by multiplying the measured energyconsumption in kWh by the CO<sub>2</sub>-equivalents for the supply of 1 kWh as specified by your provider. Scope 2 is divided into two parts: electricity and heating. |
As you can see electricityadds the most to our carbon footprint. According to our studies more than three quarters of the total GHG emissions of our lab work are caused because of the enormous power consumption of the ultra-low temperature freezer (-80°C) and our ice machine. Read the section “What have we done to integrate the gained knowledge and to reduce GHG emissions?” to see how we dealt with this problem. | As you can see electricityadds the most to our carbon footprint. According to our studies more than three quarters of the total GHG emissions of our lab work are caused because of the enormous power consumption of the ultra-low temperature freezer (-80°C) and our ice machine. Read the section “What have we done to integrate the gained knowledge and to reduce GHG emissions?” to see how we dealt with this problem. | ||
There are no emissions listed for heating because we were not able to find any data for the heating of our lab. Since most of the time we spent in the lab was during the summer, we did not heat our lab for long periods of time. Therefore, we decided not to consider the emissions caused by heating. | There are no emissions listed for heating because we were not able to find any data for the heating of our lab. Since most of the time we spent in the lab was during the summer, we did not heat our lab for long periods of time. Therefore, we decided not to consider the emissions caused by heating. |
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