NoWingsAttached
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While I suppose that most of the carbon in America's favorite fossil
fuel is botanical in origin, it's easier to get a gut feel for
unrenewability by considering dinosaurs.
So to be more specific, if you estimate the number of carbon atoms in
one full-grown adult tyrannosaur, what volume of 92 octane gasoline
would that represent? And conversely, how many dinosaurs could you
build out of the carbon in one gallon of gas?
The answer is that the carbon content of one tyrannosaur is equivalent
to that in about 460 gallons of gasoline. (You can build 1/460th of a
tyrannosaur using the carbon in 1 gallon of gasoline.)
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=6021
fuel is botanical in origin, it's easier to get a gut feel for
unrenewability by considering dinosaurs.
So to be more specific, if you estimate the number of carbon atoms in
one full-grown adult tyrannosaur, what volume of 92 octane gasoline
would that represent? And conversely, how many dinosaurs could you
build out of the carbon in one gallon of gas?
The answer is that the carbon content of one tyrannosaur is equivalent
to that in about 460 gallons of gasoline. (You can build 1/460th of a
tyrannosaur using the carbon in 1 gallon of gasoline.)
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=6021