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> Seems like a fair carbon trade.

How do you come up with a ratio that you consider a fair trade?

I'm really not sure how I'd personally set a metric to decide it. I could go with the stat that one barrel of oil is equivalent to 25,000 hours of human labor. That means each barrel is worth 12.5 years of labor at 40 hours per week. That seems outrageous though - off hand I don't know how many barrels would be used during the flight but it would have to be replacing way more than several engineers working for several years.




> That seems outrageous though

There's a good reason oil is so hard to give up. [6.1 GJ worth of crude oil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_of_oil_equivalent) costs about $70 USD.


Barrel of oil is currently $70 which is 10 person-hours at minimum wage.

I guess you could get number like that if you are comparing the energy output. But that is a weird way to do it since we don't use people for energy.




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