Actually - in the UK it's called the carbon foot (print)
- Sorry, couldn't resist ;-)
From: David King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:38965] Re: Weight/mass of a gas
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:58:59 +0100
In the UK they get called carbon tonnes. Note the metric spelling of tonne
(based on the old English spelling tunne, rather than the Imperial and US
ton).
I suppose it refers to carbon dioxide rather than just carbon, but
personally I think it is all a smokescreen to promote politcal agendas.
David K
Harry Wyeth wrote:
We read a lot about xxx tons of CO2 or whatever, but I have trouble
imaging the weight of a volume of a gas. I have read that water is about
800 times denser than air, so from that one could calculate the weight of
a cubic meter of air, for example. But how about other gases? Is there a
metric rule of thumb? Why do engineers measure the output of a gas by
weight in the first place?
HARRY WYETH
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