2006-10-02 18:16:35 · 5 answers · asked by rosalind w 1 in Environment
Utilities--coal-fired electric plants are the worst.
2006-10-02 19:48:09 · answer #1 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one really knows the answer because industry is not interested in finding out if they are the ones that emit the most greenhouse gases (GHG). GHG is not even really considered a pollutant and so by law it's not required to be monitored coming from a smoke stack. My guess would be the cement industry that emits the most greenhouse gasses.
2006-10-04 01:46:45 · answer #2 · answered by Verves2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The MINING INDUSTRY is in the top tier of greenhouse gas producers.Just imagine all the power reqd to dismantle mountains and then crush rocks and then any chemical processes . I have read that a kind of giant microwave m/c is being tested in the belief that this will heat up the rocks and save energy in getting the reqd mineral out of the rock.
2006-10-03 03:44:05 · answer #3 · answered by gata 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well an oil refinery emits mass qauntities of Co2, O2, H2S,No2,So2 among many other wonderful fun things right into the atmosphere. Most of these are deadly to a human if directly inhaled but dissipate drammaticly in our atmosphere. The one to worry about is Co2 because it is a naturally occuring agent in our air and almost everything on earth produces it. Plants do breath it but we dont have as many as we used to. So it just keeps on accumulating.
2006-10-03 01:32:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nursery industries.
2006-10-03 01:23:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋