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Or the average annual carbon footprint for one person in the US.

> The average US household produces 7.5 tons of CO2 equivalents per year.

https://www.ccfpd.org/Portals/0/Assets/PDF/Facts_Chart.pdf

Or 15.52 tons according to worldometer. Not sure who's right here.

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/us-co2-emissions...

Yeah good question. To add to the confusion, this paper published PNAS says "2.83 ± 1.0 t of CO2-equivalents per capita". Per capita is different from per household but might be a better metric

It also states that using just national energy statistics (this study actually analyzed 93 million households instead) you'd arrive at 3.19 t CO2 per capita which falls in line with their results

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1922205117

And, either way, this maneuver seems like it generated CO2 emissions roughly equal to those that would be saved by 10 people line drying their clothes for a year. Which 10 people are we gonna pick?

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