Individual Emissions Calculator

Carbon Dioxide Emissions as Quantities of Solid Carbon

20 lb bags of charcoal briquets

0 bags

In order to "see" the amount of carbon you emit per month through travel, the calculator has converted your carbon dioxide emissions into twenty-pound bags of charcoal briquets.

One month's emissions of 0 pounds of CO2 is equivalent to 0 standard, twenty-pound bags of charcoal briquets.

Methodology

Atomic Weight of C = 12
Atomic Weight of O = 16
Atomic Weight of O = 16
Atomic Weight of CO2 = 44

12 [C]/44 [CO2] = 27% of the weight of CO2 is carbon

0.27 X Your Monthly CO2 Emissions = ANSWER (carbon equivalent)

ANSWER/One 20-pound bag = Number of twenty-pound briquette bags

 
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