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Re:How Can We Stop the CO2 That Plants Store from Leaking Ba... by jonas21 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @12:47PM (#35616455)
Can you cite your source on the leaf blower thing? I'm guessing they're talking about air quality, not CO2 emissions. Obviously, nobody's feeding their leaf blower 40 gallons of gas per hour.
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Re:How Can We Stop the CO2 That Plants Store from Leaking Ba... by gjsman-1000 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @12:52PM (#35616534)
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/10/13/its-time-to-ban-gas-pow...

Air Quality, yes; but I will admit CO2 is not compared.

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Re:How Can We Stop the CO2 That Plants Store from Leaking Ba... by function_seven on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @01:22PM (#35616949)
To determine CO2, you can just look at the amount of fuel consumed. That'll get you close enough.

A leaf-blower running for one hour will burn roughly 1/2 gal. of fuel. Ca 40mpg car going from LA to Denver will burn about 25 gallons of fuel.

That car trip will generate around 50 times as much CO2 as the blower

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Re:How Can We Stop the CO2 That Plants Store from Leaking Ba... by sbaiddn on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:58PM (#35618366)
Pretty darn close! It should be well within 90% of the right answer. For a car probably about 99.9%
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