Monday, April 4, 2011

What is Carbon Footprint?

Well to start with, carbon dioxide is a a chemical made up of two oxygen molecules and 1 carbon molecule naturally it is present in the atmosphere but human intervention made imbalances in the proportions the gases.
Carbon footprint is our total carbon emission measured by tons, at the current rate we are releasing 20 billion tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. We all know the harm that these chemicals bring to our environment.

What we might not be aware or we tend to neglect is the type of footprint that we leave behind.

Direct emission
These our direct bruning of fossil fuels within the cope of our control, like using your vehicles and cookung by way of liquified petroleum gases.

Indirect Emission
Individually, indirect emssion is responsible for a huge fraction of your carbon foorprints.... Purchasing products, traveling, using your electricty and the like. Though you are not directly involved in the combustion parse, your purchase results to this.

at the current status of the way we produce our electricity carbon dioxide will continue to warm our planet. However if we learn to embrace new technological advances like solar panels and other renewable energy sources we can reduce or even turn emissions to zero.

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