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🍯 The Carbon Footprint of a Beekeeping Operation

An interactive 3D carbon-footprint chart for a beekeeping operation: dial in hive count, sugar feeding, migratory transport and equipment lifespan to see where the CO2e actually comes from.

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A live 3D bar chart set above a model apiary breaks a beekeeping operation's emissions into sugar feed, equipment manufacture, hive transport and colony-loss replacement, so you can see which choices actually move the total.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each bar is driven by a simplified emissions model in kg CO2e per hive per year. Sugar feed and equipment are steady background costs, but transport can spike sharply for migratory operations moving hives repeatedly across a season.

🎮 How to Use

Set hive count, sugar fed per hive, transport miles per season and equipment lifespan. Toggle migratory operation to see repeated hauls multiply the transport bar and the truck's exhaust, then watch the total and per-hive stats update live.

💡 Did You Know?

For large migratory operations, diesel fuel for trucking hives between almond pollination, other crops and summer forage can rival or exceed sugar feeding as the single biggest emissions source — a lever the beekeeper directly controls.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D bar chart set beside a model apiary breaks a beekeeping operation's emissions into sugar feed, amortized equipment, hive transport and colony-loss replacement, updating live as you adjust hive count, feeding rate, transport miles, equipment lifespan and a migratory-operation toggle.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install