CCCamp 2019 Power Statistics

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CO2 numbers

The diesel consumption for the electric power generation was roughly 25000 liters. That means, in rough terms, every attendee of the Camp used 5 liters. Burning 25000 liters produces around 77 metric tonnes of CO2 (better emission numbers of the actual diesel generators are welcome). [1]
If we cover the area of the Ziegelei (249090 m2 (Source: OSM)) with that amount of CO2 the height of that cover would be 17 cm (at 1024 hPa and 20 °C (roughly the average weather on day 4)).
In comparison the anthropogenic CO2 emission of around 40 Gt per year [2] leads to an additional height of 4 cm per year (surface of the earth 510072000 km2, same weather conditions as above).

If we take the emission budget into account, for example the 420 Gt of CO2 (set at the start of 2018 for the 1.5 °C target)[3], we have left around 353 Gt. That means around 692 g/m2 (considering the surface the earth). The camp used up 310 g/m2 (considering the the area of the Ziegelei).