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Carbon Footprints
This category is for questions about the amount of greenhouse gases produced by various entities.
463 Questions
What is part of a person carbon footprint?
Chemically, it is how much CH4 they cause to be burnt into CO2.
What is a by-product of compost bins?
Amendments, fertilizers, and mulches are by-products of compost bins. The containers in question hold dark-colored, fresh-smelling, nutrient-rich organic matter at the end of properly monitored decomposition of recyclable materials and therefore serve as sources of soil enricheners and weed-controllers.
2What gas is the carbon footprint about?
The carbon footprint mainly refers to the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions produced by human activities such as burning fossil fuels for transportation, energy, and industrial processes. Other greenhouse gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide, may also contribute to the carbon footprint.
How is compost environmentally sustainable?
Compost is environmentally sustainable because it is both good for the environment and since it comes from organic materials, like leaves after they naturally fall from trees, we will never run out of it.
What does carbon contribute to compost?
Energy is the contribution that carbon makes to compost. Compostable materials move through the decomposition process thanks to certain ambient and procedural requirements (concerning aeration, heat, light, moisture) and to certain macro- and micro-organisms. Carbon-rich materials provide energy for decomposers to get the decomposing into dark-colored, fresh-smelling, nutrient-rich organic material done.
How much carbon dioxide was put out during the Mt St Helen's eruption?
The primary gas discharged by volcanoes is not CO2 by H2S, hydrogen sulfide. Currently Mt. St. Helens is Washington's top polluter, emitting about 100 tons of sulfur dioxide per day. Previously that distinction would have gone to one coal fired plant near Centralia, which emitted 200 tons of H2S per day until state regulators insisted on renovations which brought the emissions down below 30 tons per day.
The eruption released somewhere in the neighborhood of 200,000 tons of CO2. In contrast, humans emit about 30,000,000,000 tons of CO2 per year, or 150,000 times as much. According to the USGS, that is well over 100 times as much as all earth's volcanoes combined.
Which is common to the carbon nitrogen and water cycles?
The elements are returned back to the atmosphere. It is common in all the cycles.
Where can you find easy simple ways to reduce your carbon footprint and save money?
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using fossil fuels to create soot?
Soot is unburned carbon, it is in itself a loss of combustion efficiency and not a desireable product.
How much CO2 is produced to manufacture 1 ton of glass?
The production of 1 ton of glass emits approximately 0.5 to 1 ton of CO2, depending on the manufacturing process used. Glass production involves high-temperature melting of raw materials, which releases CO2 from fuel combustion and chemical reactions.
How do trees control noise polution?
Trees, not only absorb carbon dioxide, provide shade, prevent erosion, but they can also help muffle noise. Think of trees as big, leafy, air-purifying, oxygen-producing, white noise machines. Acting as shields, trees reduce the intensity of the sound waves considerably and it is the sound produced by the wind passing through the leaves that really helps muffle noise. A properly-designed buffer of trees and shrubs can reduce noise by about five to ten decibels-or about 50 percent as perceived by the human ear, according to the USDA National Agroforestry Center. For maximum effect, experts suggest planting a variety of both hedges or shrubs and taller trees to create a wall of foliage from the ground up. Such examples as cottonwoods, poplar and aspen trees are especially good at noise reduction because their leaf-shapes produce a good, strong rustling sound.
