Carbon dioxide (CO2) can be poisonous at very high concentrations.
If you’ve seen the movie Apollo 13, you know that one of the crises the NASA engineers had to overcome was devising a carbon dioxide filter to keep the …
Could I grow enough trees in my yard to absorb all the carbon dioxide my lifestyle generates?
Unless you have a very large yard, measured in acres of land, it is unlikely that you could offset your carbon footprint by planting trees. However, trees do absorb CO2, so planting trees in any size yard can help offset …
I want to burn firewood to save on heating costs. Burning wood releases CO2 but so does a power plant burning coal to make electricity to heat my house. Can you quantify the tradeoff? Which is better?
Coal and wood are energy sources that essentially have the same origin – Energy from the sun, that has been converted into chemical potential energy, stored in the bonds of carbohydrates through the process of photosynthesis. In both cases, this …