> Shortest flight Long Beach - Long Beach 6 mins 12/28/22
What's going there? A test flight?
How is that news or even relevant?
I’m not an Elon fan, but “ $2,640,000” for transporting the nominally richest man in the world is….not that much?
You could use Climeworks to actually sequester 1895 tons of CO2, forever, for €1,895,000. So about doubling the operating cost, a bit under $5 million. Still…not that much? I mean, having the CEO on-site is useful. In person meetings are useful.
https://climeworks.com/one-off-climate-purchase
Side note: I do not think Elon Musk is nearly as rich as reports make him out to be. His net worth is wrapped up in a single stock that went into a bubble, and now also in Twitter, where he is heavily underwater. He is not rich in a diversified way like Gates or Buffett.
But he is still more than rich enough to afford $5 million per year!
The website says:
~ 1,895 tons of CO2 emissions.
According to the EPA (https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...): "A typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year."
So about 420 cars worth of emissions.