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Re:Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought by mikeash on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:28PM (#9728815)
I assume "carbon" is short for carbon dioxide here, so you get mass contribution from the air consumed in the process.
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Re:Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought by aftbit on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:43PM (#9728890)
That means the plant consumes 20 billion liters (30 million kilograms) of oxygen in a day.[1] That's insane. Just shows you how huge Earth must be for that to happen and me to still be able to breathe. :)

[1]: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=liters+of+oxygen+in+440...

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Re:Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:32PM (#9728835)
The 'O' in 'CO2'. C is 12; O is 16. I'm surprised its only 2:1 instead of 3:1 (or more accurately 44:12)
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Re:Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought by danmaz74 on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:47PM (#9728910)
Probably because carbon isn't actually pure carbon
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