Digging Under CO2 Numbers
Monday, July 9, 2012 - 02:10
in Mathematics & Economics
Numerical results are not gospel. After crunching them again, even if they turn out to be valid, time is not lost. Investigating will often teach one something. So to learn a little more, I wondered how the EPA arrived at the figure of 8.92*10-3 metric tons CO2/gallon of gasoline.First, since I'm a middle-aged Canadian half-raised on imperial gallons and half on liters, I'll begin with a more trivial matter---a conversion: read more