I've looked a bit, but I can't seem to find many estimated or average statistics on things like fossil fuel emissions, and their sources like cars, factories, and other such things. Answers with sources would be great. Plus any other amounts of pollution annually or daily would make an answer even better.
2006-11-06 14:37:38 · 3 answers · asked by uglyblueflamingo 1 in Environment
The EPA has posted an huge database of air pollution data. They got it sorted by chemical, location and source. Note, the source of pollution is sometimes different than where the pollution ends up especially in the case of photochemicals.
Another database I found is from BP. There it states that people used 8 trillion tons of petroleum, coal, and natural gas last year.
Hope that starts you off in the right direction.
2006-11-13 23:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by Verves2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in South Florida. When a Hurricane comes our way we have to close our Port to all traffic, including gas tankers. Within 2 days of no new supplies we run out of gas. We get 2 tankers each day into the port. What this means is that South Florida burns that much gas every day! You can start to estimate emissions (output) by looking at consumption (input). Below is a source link to Dept of Energy. There you can find some of the breakdowns you are looking for. Also I linked you to the source page for the NRDC, which is full of a few links that helped them compile data.
2006-11-06 15:07:22 · answer #2 · answered by Brian L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that just one volcanic eruption puts more ozone depleating gasses into the air than all the fossil fuels ever burned by man since the beginning of the industrial revoltion!
2006-11-06 14:41:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋