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   heracl.es (heracles@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 14:50:19 JST heracl.es

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   • Bastian Allgeier

   @bastianallgeier It sounds difficult for 1 lt of gasoline to produce 2.5kg CO₂ . It's lighter than water, so 1 lt weights less than 1 kg (0.75 kg apparently), so it's gaseous byproducts have to weigh even less.

   I can't find a decent source to cross-reference, but maybe it's 2.37 grams of CO₂ per litter of fuel, hence 1000 x 12 the amount of full tanks needed?

   Don't want to argue against the contribution of individual cars, but it sounds harder to visualize.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 14:50:19 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     remember that only the C comes from the gasoline. the O₂ from the atmosphere reacts with it, and it's much heavier
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     Bastian Allgeier (bastianallgeier@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 14:50:20 JST Bastian Allgeier

     Sometimes I need such simple visualizations to really grasp what we are doing.

     A liter of gasoline produces 2,37 kg of CO2. If you fill up a VW Golf 12 times (50 liter tank), you’ve put its own weight (~1,4 t) in CO2 into the atmosphere.

     I’ve put a lot of cars into the atmosphere in my life :(