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2006-07-09 17:39:52 · 6 answers · asked by JPK 1 in Environment

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There are about 6,500,000,000 humans. They release about 6,500,000,000 kg of carbon per year by burning fossil fuels. CO2 is a bit heavier than carbon so the total release of CO2 would be about 23,800,000,000 kg/year. A year has 8766 hours. So the release rate per hour per person on average is just 417 milligrams per hour. It doesn't sound like much does it? And yet it totals to 24 million metric tons per year.

2006-07-09 17:52:51 · answer #1 · answered by Engineer 6 · 0 0

Here is something to think about don't believe me check this stuff out...

1.Water(H2O) is the only element known to man to expand when it freezes every other element contracts when it freezes so that is the first fact. For example fill a milk jugg with water, now stick it in the freezer... come back later and it will have exploded from preassure of freezing water.

2.Icebergs are massive chunks of ice, only a few percent of the ice is above water, which means the rest of the ice is underwater.

3.The ice underwater because water expands when it freezes is displacing the liquid water. So when that iceberg melts all the ice under the water will contract and fill a smaller space, so the level of the water will be less now because the ice which was displacing the liquid water is unfrozen and now occupies a less amount of space.

4.Scientific models show that if all the ice on this planet melted we would see a 3" DROP in ocean levels NOT a rise but a DROP.

Now isn't that interesting.

Now for the greenhouse gasses.

1.Plants LOVE a carbon dioxide rich air supply.

2.The more carbon dioxide their is the faster they grow.

3.Plants use photosynthesis to get their food so they can grow.

4.When the plants sense a higher level of carbon dioxide they will make up for it by sucking up more and more and one of the products of photosynthesis is OXYGEN!!

5.So no matter how much CARBON DIOXIDE there is the plants will COMPENSATE and suck up more and grow faster and bigger. and the bigger the plant is the more OXYGEN it produces through photosynthesis

2006-07-09 19:38:48 · answer #2 · answered by Bob 1 · 0 1

According to wikipedia, 200ml of CO2 per minute; 12 liters per hour

2006-07-09 17:48:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Your question is somehow incomplete. CO2 outcome is not equals to O2 intake by breathing. CO2 production is always higher. It comes out from body directly as gas and indirectly as compounds eg. urea etc.

2006-07-09 20:40:52 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. Homo sapiens 2 · 0 0

1 liter air
* (1440 minutes/day)
* (1/22.4 liters/mole)
* (0.209 moles O2/mole air)
* 1/2 (50% utilization)
* 1 mole CO2 per mole O2
* 44 grams / mole CO2
= ~300 grams CO2 per person per day

At 2.2 lbs per KG, that's equal to 0.66 lbs per day.

2006-07-09 17:50:48 · answer #5 · answered by huntnikk2000 3 · 0 0

i think soo u r asking how much ...........

for that u must go through ur science book

sam ;)

2006-07-09 17:44:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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