What is the avearge amount of co2 a person breathes out in one breath.?

Question

I need to know this info to see if it is reasonable that we can stop global warming by holding our breath for a few minutes each day.

Answer 1

Yes this is an important topic.
the amount is tiny really.
why not try to blow up a balloon and never burst it then all th gas will be traped and not effect the environment
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Answer 2

we breathe in :

78% nitrogen
21% oxygen
0.07% water vapour
0.03% carbon dioxyde
0.9% rares gases

we exhale :
78% nitrogen
14.97% oxygen
1% water vapour
6% carbon dioxyde
0.9% rares gases

so we exhale about 6% CO2 per breath (that would be 0.03L of CO2)
with an average breath volume of 0.5L
and about 6.5 billion people on earth
that would make 195,000,000 L of CO2 per breath of every people on earth.

Lets says that everybody on earth holds their breath for 1 minute every day, and that we breath for evey 5 seconds that would save 12 breath. So that would make for a year :
854,100,000,000 L of CO2 which wouldn't go in the atmosphere per years...

the only thing is, even if we hold our breath, the CO2 content will rise in our exhaling breath we hold to equalise the 6% we exhale normaly.

We should cut on cars instead of our breath

Answer 3

Impractical. The amount we breath in is the same percentage atmosphere has of CO2. By holding our breath out we only accumulate it inside ourselves, so when we expel, we'll end up with the same average CO2 as this maneuver hasn't been done.
Besides humans are not the major source of CO2 amongst animals, all other mammals combines sum up more than humans, so IMPRACTICAL.

Answer 4

for the first part:

take a 2 liter bottle and fill it to the top with water and measure every cup, or some amount that you want to measure by, then invert it under water.

take a bendable straw, put it into the bottle, and breathe into it. measure the amount of water that is displaced by the air.



for the second part:

the amount of CO2 that is emitted by humans is not that signicificant comapared to natural events like volcanos and industrial events like factories and automobiles.

Answer 5

A better idea than holding our breaths will be of planting more threes, they crave for CO2. All plants and bacteria CO2 is their source of life.

Answer 6

it would not make a difference because your body will make the same amount of co2 and there will be just that much more when you exhale

Answer 7

i think that's funny! i picture this big-lunged fat guy breathing on people, and killing them off with his breath of co2. But hey....nobody was breathing, and he saved the world.

Answer 8

A couple cubic feet i would supopose after looking at our lung size.

Answer 9

nope, that won't work. the bulk of co2 is generated by fossil fuels being burned. We can stop global warming with cannabis hemp/biomass fuel aka hempoline. Here's some details:



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