Snowboard
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A snowboard has very low greenhouse gas emissions in use. The only emissions associated with use are the additional emissions from transport, which we consider negligable if transported inside a vehicle, but could be significant if transported externally as for example on the roof of a car which would add drag. | A snowboard has very low greenhouse gas emissions in use. The only emissions associated with use are the additional emissions from transport, which we consider negligable if transported inside a vehicle, but could be significant if transported externally as for example on the roof of a car which would add drag. | ||
- | + | The emissions caused by the added drag can be estimated by considering a increase in fuel consumption of 5% when using a ski rack [X]. When estimating an average driving distance to snowboard as 200 miles, a car with 20 miles/gallon, 5 trips/year, a 10 year life span and an average of 3 snowboards in the rack, the amount of gas needed to compensate for the ski rack can be estimated to 8.3 gallons. Considering 8.9 kg CO2 per gallon of gas [Y], the total CO2 emissions from the use of a snowboard is approximately 75 kg. Being such a rough estimate it seems natural to round it to the order of magnitude of 0.1 t CO2. | |
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Revision as of 14:30, 11 February 2012
Contents |
Executive Summary
Stakeholders
Consumer
Retailer
Manufacturer
Shipping
Use Study
Mechanical Function
Product Parts
Exploded Assembly
Bill of Materials
Table: Components of Snowboard
Design for Manufacture and Assembly
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
Design for Environment
A snowboard has very low greenhouse gas emissions in use. The only emissions associated with use are the additional emissions from transport, which we consider negligable if transported inside a vehicle, but could be significant if transported externally as for example on the roof of a car which would add drag.
The emissions caused by the added drag can be estimated by considering a increase in fuel consumption of 5% when using a ski rack [X]. When estimating an average driving distance to snowboard as 200 miles, a car with 20 miles/gallon, 5 trips/year, a 10 year life span and an average of 3 snowboards in the rack, the amount of gas needed to compensate for the ski rack can be estimated to 8.3 gallons. Considering 8.9 kg CO2 per gallon of gas [Y], the total CO2 emissions from the use of a snowboard is approximately 75 kg. Being such a rough estimate it seems natural to round it to the order of magnitude of 0.1 t CO2.
We assume that the main emmisions of greenhouse gas will be caused by the manufacture of the snowboard. To estimate the amount of this we used the EIO-LCA method. This gave a total of manufacturing emissions as 0.25t CO2 considering an average price of 400 dollars for a board.
However the method is very unprecise in our case as snowboards only represents a fraction of the sporting and athletic goods manufacturing sector, so it represents the average emmisions of all sports equipment which could vary enormously from one product to another.