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
