Re:Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought
by noonespecial on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:21PM
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...the Navajo Generating Station keeps grinding away, consuming 22,000 tons of coal and emitting 44,000 tons of carbon each day.
Help me out. Where does the extra carbon come from? (or did they mean CO2... in that case wow, burning the coal doubles its weight with collected oxygen!)
Re:Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought
by sp332 on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:59PM
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They probably meant CO2. Carbon has an atomic mass of 12 and each oxygen weighs 16. So if it's only emitting double the mass of CO2, then the rest is other kinds of gasses, or solid waste.
Help me out. Where does the extra carbon come from? (or did they mean CO2... in that case wow, burning the coal doubles its weight with collected oxygen!)