You just knew it was only a matter of time
The National Football League has announced that it will be offsetting pretty much all of Super Bowl XLV’s energy expenditures this year — an amount that evidently adds up to a staggering 15,000 megawatts. They’ll be offsetting the energy use with renewable energy certificates provided by Just Energy, and it will cover a long list of events related to, leading up to, and the main event itself. Which, of course, is a thoughtful gesture by the NFL. But it also draws attention to the fact that the Super Bowl sucks down 15,000 MW of power at once — enough electricity to run 1,500 homes for an entire year. Other than that, this is going to be the ‘greenest Super Bowl’ ever …
See, it’s OK if you use massive amounts of electricy, as long as you purchase some offsets to supposedly plant a tree somewhere you’ll never see, which will suck up CO2 in some time in the future.
