repoman
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I am having a hard time to find this information - even a very rough, time averaged estimate just at current CO2 levels.
There is all this mention of GWP (Global Warming Potential) and no list of the units of CO2 which is the base as 1 GWP unit.
The number I am looking for will be in the units similar to:
Watts/kg (CO2)
Finally found a website that addressed it from looking at total heating over time, instead of from modeling CO2 trapping heat. Better than nothing I guess.
http://gcconsortium.com/heat_trapping.html
After a very rough estimate it says that CO2 will trap 100x more heat over its residence time than was gained from burning the fuel. To be more specific he says that it will trap 2x the combustion energy/yr and will have a 50 year residence time. If the math he did was good, then the former makes sense, but the latter seems way to short an average NET residence time for CO2.
There is all this mention of GWP (Global Warming Potential) and no list of the units of CO2 which is the base as 1 GWP unit.
The number I am looking for will be in the units similar to:
Watts/kg (CO2)
Finally found a website that addressed it from looking at total heating over time, instead of from modeling CO2 trapping heat. Better than nothing I guess.
http://gcconsortium.com/heat_trapping.html
After a very rough estimate it says that CO2 will trap 100x more heat over its residence time than was gained from burning the fuel. To be more specific he says that it will trap 2x the combustion energy/yr and will have a 50 year residence time. If the math he did was good, then the former makes sense, but the latter seems way to short an average NET residence time for CO2.