Jeff Bezos e Lauren Sánchez, al matrimonio a Venezia 250 invitati in arrivo con 90 jet privati diversi. I vip alle nozze e i costi dell'evento
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Si avvicina sempre di più il giorno delle nozze tra Jeff Bezos, 61 anni, e Lauren Sánchez, 55 anni, previsto dal 26 al 28 giugno 2025 a Venezia. Si preannuncia un evento gigantesco con...

Article is in italian I couldn’t find any news about this in english but i believe it’s really important to share.

"Sono attesi dagli 80 ai 90 aerei all’aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia. Jet privati da Los Angeles, New York, Londra e Dubai scaricheranno in laguna un carico scintillante di star, imprenditori, supermodelle, influencer e tycoon. Il traffico aereo privato sarà talmente intenso da richiedere un coordinamento speciale tra l’aeroporto di Venezia e gli scali di riserva a Verona e Treviso. "

Translation:

"80 to 90 planes are expected at Venice’s Marco Polo airport. Private jets from Los Angeles, New York, London and Dubai will unload a glittering cargo of stars, entrepreneurs, supermodels, influencers and tycoons into the lagoon. Private air traffic will be so intense that it will require special coordination between Venice airport and the reserve stopovers in Verona and Treviso. "

  • Tja@programming.devEnglish
    201·
    1 day ago

    Well, a quick Google search says billions of straws are used every day.

    A straw seemingly cointans 0.42 grams of plastic.

    So by using paper straws, assuming just 1 billion straws a day, we save 420 million grams (420 tons) of plastic.

    Assuming it takes the same amount of oil to create a kg of plastic and a kg of fuel, that is 420 tons of fuel a day, just over 150k tons of fuel a year.

    An average private jet has a capacity of around 20 tons of fuel (looked up G650 on Wikipedia).

    So, the global paper straw usage offsets at least 7500 private jet flights. More if we use more than a billion straws, and more if we assume a jet doesn’t fully burn 100% of the tank on every flight.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      23 hours ago

      Thanks for the calculation. Sounds about right, according to the link below the top of the ladder billionaire flies about a couple hundred times a year and consumes about 2000 tonnes of fuel. So the fuel consumption you calculated is about 70 billionaires. It is generally true that the top hundred richest people in the world consume/obtain about as much resources as the rest of the world so that calculation is believable.

      https://carboncredits.com/the-curious-case-of-top-ceos-private-jet-emissions/