Elon Musk
Aircraft: Gulfstream G650ER
Ownership: FAA registry shows N628TS registered to Falcon Landing LLC, linked to Elon Musk per multiple reports. N272BG also associated with Musk.
All-time CO₂: 584.6 metric tons (50 flights)
YTD CO₂: 262.4 metric tons (23 flights)
- what 477.3 average Americans produce in a month (US EPA, 2024 Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (annual figure divided by 12) — https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks)
- driving 1,447,148 miles in a car (US EPA — avg passenger vehicle emits 404 g CO2/mile)
- 365.4 transatlantic economy round-trips (ICAO Carbon Calculator — economy JFK-LHR round-trip ≈ 1.6 t CO2)
- 26,575 trees working for a full year to absorb (US Forest Service — one mature tree absorbs ~22 kg CO2/year)
- 1,392 months of powering an avg US home (US EIA — avg US home electricity ≈ 5 t CO2/year)
- charging your phone 73,080,988 times. Every day for 200,222 years. (US EPA — charging a smartphone ≈ 8 g CO2)
- manufacturing 8,120 brand new iPhones from scratch (Apple Environmental Report 2024 — iPhone lifecycle ≈ 72 kg CO2e)
- 2,923,239,500 Google searches. You could Google "is my private jet bad for the environment" 2,923,239,500 times. (Google Environmental Report — one Google search ≈ 0.2 g CO2)
- the carbon footprint of 162,402 cheeseburgers. That's 54,134.1 meals a day for 148.3 years. (Journal of Cleaner Production 2023 — one cheeseburger ≈ 3.6 kg CO2)
- 1,853.9 years of 24/7 non-stop Netflix. You could watch every show ever made. Twice. (IEA — streaming one hour of video ≈ 36 g CO2)
- the CO₂ dissolved in 85,977,632 bottles of champagne. That's 7,164,803 cases. Pop responsibly. (Chemistry — 750 mL champagne contains ~6.8 g dissolved CO2)
- enough CO₂ to fill 23,218,874 party balloons — except they'd all sink because CO₂ is heavier than air. Sad party. (Ideal gas law — 1 kg CO2 ≈ 556 liters at STP)
- 2,386.3 human cremations. One flight = literally incinerating 2,386 people's worth of carbon. (Cremation Assoc. of North America — one cremation ≈ 245 kg CO2)
- producing 2,923,240 eggs. A hen lays ~300/year. That's the lifetime output of 1,949 hens. (Poultry Science 2014 — one egg ≈ 0.2 kg CO2e)
- 642,470 hot showers. You could shower every single day for 1,760.2 years. But sure, you're the problem for leaving the water running. (UK Energy Saving Trust — 8-min gas-heated shower ≈ 0.91 kg CO2)
- 243,603 loads of laundry. Do one load a week and that's 4,684.7 years of clean clothes. (The Guardian / Carbon Trust — one 40°C wash + tumble dry ≈ 2.4 kg CO2)
- 41,760,564,286 human farts. The average person would need to fart for 8,172,322 years to match this one flight. (Duke Univ. — avg fart ≈ 0.5 g methane × 28 GWP ≈ 14 mg CO2e)
- what you exhale by simply existing and breathing for 1,779.8 years. One flight = a lifetime of being alive. (EPA — avg person exhales ~0.9 kg CO2/day)
- 1,382,146 avocados. That's 3,786.7 years of daily avocado toast. Remember when they blamed millennials? (Carbon Trust — one avocado ≈ 423 g CO2 (incl. transport))
- brewing 1,169,296 pints of beer. That's 5,846 Oktoberfests. Prost. (Berners-Lee "How Bad Are Bananas?" — one pint of beer ≈ 500 g CO2)
- fully charging a Tesla 23,018 times. About 6,214,761 miles of EV driving. They flew 1,447,148 miles instead. By jet. (US EIA avg grid — Tesla Model 3 (60 kWh) full charge ≈ 25.4 kg CO2)
- keeping a pet goldfish for 23,386 years. The goldfish would die of old age 2,339 times over. (Univ. of Edinburgh — keeping one goldfish ≈ 25 kg CO2/year)
- permanently melting 1,753.9 m² of Arctic sea ice. Every flight, a little more ice just... gone. (Science 2016 (Notz & Stroeve) — 1 ton CO2 melts ~3 m² Arctic sea ice)
- enough CO₂ gas to fill 130 Olympic swimming pools. You could not swim in them. You would die. (Ideal gas law — 1 kg CO2 ≈ 556 liters at STP)
Their Climate Quotes
"I'm the biggest proponent of sustainable energy. Tesla and SolarCity exist because of climate change."
— Elon Musk interview, Rolling Stone, 2017 (source)
Flight History
| Date | Route | Duration | CO₂ | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3/22/2026 | ? → ? | 4h | 17.9 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/30/2026 | KSJC → ? | 1.2h | 5.3 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/30/2026 | KBFI → KSJC | 1.7h | 7.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/28/2026 | KLAX → KBFI | 2.1h | 9.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/23/2026 | KAUS → KLAX | 2.6h | 11.3 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/23/2026 | KLAX → KAUS | 2.3h | 10.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/22/2026 | KBFI → KLAX | 2h | 8.9 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/22/2026 | LSZH → KAUS | 9.8h | 47.1 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/22/2026 | KSJC → LSZH | 10.2h | 48.8 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/20/2026 | KSJC → KBFI | 1.7h | 7.4 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/20/2026 | KLAX → KSJC | 0.8h | 3.4 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/17/2026 | KSEA → KLAX | 1.9h | 8.5 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/17/2026 | KSJC → KSEA | 1.6h | 6.9 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/17/2026 | KAUS → KSJC | 3.2h | 14 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/13/2026 | ? → KAUS | 0.9h | 3.7 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/12/2026 | KSJC → ? | 3.1h | 13.7 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/11/2026 | KLAX → KSJC | 0.8h | 3.5 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/9/2026 | KSJC → KLAX | 0.8h | 3.5 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/9/2026 | KBFI → KSJC | 1.6h | 6.8 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/6/2026 | KSJC → KBFI | 1.8h | 7.7 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/6/2026 | KLAX → KSJC | 0.9h | 3.7 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/5/2026 | CYVR → KLAX | 2.3h | 10.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/1/2026 | ? → CYVR | 0.8h | 3.5 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/31/2025 | ? → ? | 3.8h | 16.5 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/29/2025 | KLAX → ? | 2.6h | 11.5 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/19/2025 | KSJC → KLAX | 0.9h | 3.8 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/18/2025 | ? → KSJC | 5.4h | 23.3 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/17/2025 | KBFI → ? | 3.9h | 17 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/16/2025 | KAUS → KSJC | 3h | 14.3 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/15/2025 | KSJC → KBFI | 1.6h | 7.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/14/2025 | KBFI → KSJC | 1.7h | 7.5 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/13/2025 | KSJC → KBFI | 1.6h | 7 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/13/2025 | KLAX → KSJC | 0.8h | 3.4 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/11/2025 | KSJC → KLAX | 0.9h | 3.9 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/11/2025 | EGLL → KSJC | 10.3h | 44.7 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/10/2025 | ? → EGLL | 1.1h | 4.7 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/10/2025 | EBBR → ? | 0.5h | 2.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/8/2025 | KSJC → EBBR | 10.3h | 44.7 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/8/2025 | KLAX → KSJC | 0.9h | 3.7 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/5/2025 | KSJC → KLAX | 0.8h | 3.6 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/5/2025 | KLAX → KSJC | 0.8h | 3.5 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/5/2025 | ? → KLAX | 2.9h | 12.7 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/4/2025 | KLAX → ? | 2.7h | 11.9 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/3/2025 | ? → KLAX | 3h | 13.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/3/2025 | ? → ? | 2.9h | 12.5 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/2/2025 | KEWR → ? | 1.8h | 7.7 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/2/2025 | KLAX → KEWR | 4.4h | 19.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 11/27/2025 | KSJC → KAUS | 2.6h | 12.6 metric tons | View sources |
| 11/26/2025 | KTRK → KLAX | 1.1h | 4.7 metric tons | View sources |
| 11/26/2025 | KBFI → KTRK | 1.2h | 5.4 metric tons | View sources |