All entries for Friday 09 December 2005

Everyone's blaming Carbon

Along with many second year engineers, I'm getting bored with working out my Carbon Footprint. Basically there's always carbon around, so the real reason of finding out your carbon footprint is to show how much Carbon from fossil fuels you're releasing (as CO2) into the atmosphere. But can it really be that bad, when the fossil fuel came from the Earth in the first place? What happens if its Carbon-14 and not Carbon-12????

Anyway, what's with all the Carbon-bashing? Fossil fuel is a Hydrocarbon. Why not blame the Dihydrogen Oxide released in combustion? Why not blame hydrogen? Why not blame Dihydrogen Oxide as the main greenhouse gas? Argh there's too much H20 on the planet! Dammit we're getting too hydrated!
Why not work out our Hydrogen footprint???

Just having a cheesed off moment, if anyone finds a nice table full of embodied energy/CO2 per kilogram of food let me know.
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Nathaniel Ho : 09 Dec 2005 00:26 |  Tags: Environment General |  Comments (13) |  Close comments |  Trackbacks (1) |  Report a problem