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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago

This is how big one tonne of CO2 is

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This is how big one tonne of CO2 is

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
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    At what sort of pressure?

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      1 atmosphere, so sea level pressure, per Diána Ürge-Vorsatz

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        I feel like a ton of C02 at air pressure should be bigger.
        I know it’s correct, but it looks like the amount of exhaust produced by a car idling for a few minutes, at a visceral level you just expect a literal tonne of gas to take up more volume.

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          I assume CO2 is only a portion of the exhaust. Not sure if that’s what you were meaning already?

          Edit: No idea of the quality of this source, but:

          So what’s coming out of a car exhaust is 13 per cent CO2, 13 per cent water (26 per cent sub-total) and 73 per cent nitrogen gas. The air that you’re breathing right now is 78 per cent nitrogen gas, 21 per cent oxygen, and one percent everything else.

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      At what temperature?

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        Whatever it was about on Jan 27, 2024 in Vienna in the evening during the Science Ball. Probably about 10°C

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          But at what pressure?

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            ~1 atm/bar.

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      1 atm.

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