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What is the difination of carbon footeprint?
A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the use of fossil fuels, such as oil and gas. Each person, industry and group has its own carbon footprint.
What does consumption have to do with a person or nation's carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is the measure of how much carbon you and your activities and lifestyle cost the planet. High-consumption nations and lifestyles affect their carbon footprint. Developed countries use far more energy to run their businesses, transport and the personal lifestyles of their citizens. As energy now comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), their carbon footprint is high.
Why does the level of development of a country affect its carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is the measure of how much carbon you and your activities and lifestyle cost the planet. Developed countries use far more energy to run their businesses, transport and the personal lifestyles of their citizens. As energy now comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), their carbon footprint is high.
What is the definition of carbon footprint?
the carbon foot print shows how much co2 was released when the food was traveling around the world.
What are the repercussions of a large ecological footprint?
When people talk about carbon footprints, we think of C02 and global warming and that sort of thing. In fact carbon, energy, water are all linked for most processes. By having a big carbon footprint you are contributing to anthropogenic (caused by humans) global warming, using lots of energy which probably comes from non-renewable sources like coal, oil and natural gas. Water usage may also be high. Best way to lower your carbon footprint is drive less in a smaller car, and shop "green". Shopping green is tricky so find out how at the link below:
What is the difination of carbon footeprint?
A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the use of fossil fuels, such as oil and gas. Each person, industry and group has its own carbon footprint.
What does consumption have to do with a person or nation's carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is the measure of how much carbon you and your activities and lifestyle cost the planet. High-consumption nations and lifestyles affect their carbon footprint. Developed countries use far more energy to run their businesses, transport and the personal lifestyles of their citizens. As energy now comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), their carbon footprint is high.
Why does the level of development of a country affect its carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is the measure of how much carbon you and your activities and lifestyle cost the planet. Developed countries use far more energy to run their businesses, transport and the personal lifestyles of their citizens. As energy now comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), their carbon footprint is high.
How much carbon content in furnace oil?
not more than 2%
Is burning oil better than coal?
Yes burning oil is better than coal. its because coal produces more carbon than oil
What is the definition of carbon footprint?
the carbon foot print shows how much co2 was released when the food was traveling around the world.
What fossil fuel Produces more carbon dioxide than any other fossil fuels?
oil
What fossil fuel produces more carbon dioxide than any other fossil fuel?
oil
Why does hydrogen react with oil?
First off, reactions generally favor the more stable product. Hydrogen is a reactive gas and will try to react with other substances in order for it to form a more stable product. In the case of oils, hydrogen generally will be reacting with a carbon-carbon double bond. A double bond in carbon is more reactive than a single carbon-carbon bond and two carbon - hydrogen bonds, which is what forms during an oil and hydrogen reaction. This is what is known as a hydrogenated oil, which is less prone to spoiling than a non hydrogenated oil as it is a less reactive. To go more indepth, you would need some knowledge of organic chemistry and possibly physical chemistry.
Is nuclear energy environmentally friendly?
I know there is a lot of controversy about this but I would say not. I would say it was friendlier than coal or oil in terms of carbon footprint, but neither coal nor oil has the potential for widespread destruction that nuclear has, even in a worst case scenario for global warming.Proponents of nuclear power point to lack of pollutants and a carbon footprint that is nearly nothing. But there are issues with these ideas, and they ignore a much bigger picture.First of all, nuclear energy does produce considerable pollution. Uranium mining and refining are destructive to the environments in which they are done. Tailings need to be decontaminated, which is very expensive and uses a lot of oil. In the United States, the enrichment is done in a plant powered by what has been called the dirtiest coal burning plant in the country.Until about 2004, studies on the nuclear carbon footprint almost never were done on the cradle to grave basis that is standard for a total carbon footprint. They did not include construction, decommissioning, or waste disposal. On that basis, the carbon footprint of nuclear power were given at an average of 13 grams CO2 equivalent per kilowatt hour (gCO2e/kWh).By contrast, the carbon footprint of solar photovoltaic cells was always calculated on the cradle to grave basis, and since the cells used a lot of energy to produce, production leaked traces of highly powerful global warming gasses, and the cells had low efficiency, they were calculated to produce about 105 gCO2e/kWh.More recent studies do standard total carbon footprint on nuclear, and both the manufacture and efficiency of solar cells have improved. The result is that the more recent information is that solar cells have a carbon footprint of 35 to 40 gCO2e/kWh, and the nuclear footprint is about 90 gCO2e/kWh. By contrast, wind and hydro have about 15-20 gCO2e/kWh and combined cycle natural gas in a cogeneration system has about 445 gCO2e/kWh.So the carbon footprint of nuclear is about 5 to 6 times that of hydro and wind, about 2.5 times that of solar cells, and about 20% of efficient natural gas.There is another environmental problem with nuclear, and that is high level nuclear waste. No satisfactory way of dealing with the waste has been developed in the history of nuclear power, over half a century. The US government position is that nuclear waste is dangerous for about a million years. Actually, it will take nuclear waste about six million years to have its radioactivity reduced to the level of naturally occurring uranium ore, which is not all that safe. We do not have a way to guarantee the environmental safety of the waste for even a fraction of that time. It is more than a 1000 times the age of the pyramids, more than 5000 times the age of our oldest politically body, and more than 100,000 times the age of our youngest volcano.The good news is that renewable energy systems are being developed at an impressive rate.
How does the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect life?
Carbon absorbs reactant chemicals. In some cases of poisonings eating a bunch of charcoal is a temporary measure in containing the poison before the stomach can be pumped. Otherwise pure carbon is pretty nonreactive.
Why is there more carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere?
There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now because we have been burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) for more than 200 years. This burning adds long-hidden carbon dioxide, so it is too much for the carbon cycle to completely recycle.
