To be clear, you don't have to open the (hilarious) Excel sheet to know this study is utter horseshit. Just read how it calculates the carbon a human expends on writing a paper:
Annual carbon footprint / hours per year * hour/paper
...Hey dipshit, that's the total energy to keep a human ALIVE
Annual carbon footprint / hours per year * hour/paper
...Hey dipshit, that's the total energy to keep a human ALIVE
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Are there not ways to estimate caloric output specifically by activity? Was Fitbit just a dream?
But this text show it is really bullshit. Tab closed.
More than alive. It aggregates everything they're doing *including using ChatGPT*. Actual energy cost to keep a human alive is absurdly tiny (order 100W) - so 0.1 kWh, or ~20 grams CO2e.