Global Warming, Gasoline / Hydrocarbon Combusion, People + Animal + Bacteria Respiration, Hyper-Efficient Solar Powered CO2 Processors / Artificial Photosynthesis
Here is some stuff I learned about car pollution and the greenhouse effect from HowStuffWorks (and an off-topic bit on electricity):
Gasoline
- aliphatic hydrocarbon (All Hydrogen/Carbon)
- 7-11 (Usually 9) Carbons in a string / line
- # Hydrogens = (# Carbons * 2 + 2)
- 132×106 Joules, 36,650 watt-hours, 125,000 BTU, 31,000 food calories (31,000,000 physics calories; 1 food calorie = 1000 physics colors or 1 physics kilocalorie)
Gasoline Combusion / Pollution
- 100% efficient gasoline combusion passes through the Nitrogen and generates CO2 and H2O from combining the Carbon with Oxygen and Hydrogen with Oxgyen.
- Gas combusion eats up 1 Oxygen Molecule (O2) for every Carbon atom and 1 for every 4 Hydrongen atoms.
- Burning 1 C9H20 molocule consumes 14 Oxygen molecules and produces 9 CO2 molecules and 10 Water Molocules.
- Stoichiometric ratio is about 14.7:1 – For each pound of gasoline, 14.7 pounds of air will be burned.
- Less than 100% efficient gasoline combusion produces CO (Carbon Monoxide; Poisnous), evaporated unburned hydrocarbon gas, and NO/NO2 (nitrogen oxides, NOX; NOS/Nitrous Oxide is N2O; Mucus irritant)
- Sunlight breaks down unburned hydrocarbon vapor, which react with nitrogen oxides to form ground-level ozone.
Farads:
- 1 Columb at 1 Volt.
- 1 Columb = 6.25 * 10^18 Electrons
- 1 Amp = 1 Columb of flow Per Second or 6.25 * 10^18 Electrons per second
- 1 Farad=1 Amp-Second at 1 Volt
- Capacitor is designed for rapid charge/discharge of staged current, not long-term storage.
- 1 Farad as big as a can of Tuna or Larger depending on Voltage capacity (Lower is Bigger b/c of more amp-second capacity?).
Water Vapor is a greenhouse gas also, but it’ll eventually come down as rain. Its the carbon-compound gasses like Carbon Dioxide and Methane that are the baddies. Excessive bacteria in sewage, factory farms, and hyper-fertilized soil, and too many people and their feed/domesticated/pet animals also produce lots of carbon dioxide also. A fuel-efficient car driven 1 hour per day generates the same amount of CO2 as about 240 people simply breathing for an hour. Since peopel drive for about an hour per day it takes about 10 people breathing all day to equal the CO2 from a day’s commute in a fuel efficient car. I’m assuming that people-metabolism and gasoline cumbustion generate about the same amount of CO2 per unit of engergy produced. Probably by the time we get rid of fossil fuels, there will be so many more people on the planet that all their breathing plus the breithing of their pet, feed, and service animals, and all the breathing in backteria in their sewage and fertilized soil, will make up for the difference in CO2 emissions!
How about making Solar powered CO2 processors and then recycle the carbon? Put the O2 back into the atmosphere. Plenty of carbon for plastics, carbon-fiber and other carbon-composites, rather than just letting it sit in the atmosphere. We probably got enough computer technology to develop artificial photosynthesis that may be even more efficient than the plants. With all the jungles being cut down, there will be plenty of Carbon Dioxide (and maybe other carbon compund gasses) for theyse hyper-efficient mass-scale, self powered machines to collect.
