How big is the cube in picture?

fishnguy · #1 06-19-2019, 09:20 PM

What do you think, how big is the cube in the picture? I spent a few seconds looking at it and I can’t reasonably approximate. Is it the size of the mountain behind it? Is it just slightly taller than the person?

In the article I took it from, they said this represents an approximate volume of 1 megaton of CO2. They didn’t, however, however indicate the actual size. So I am wondering how big is it.

mogger · #2 06-19-2019, 09:45 PM

Well, a million tons of water would be a cube measuring 100 meters on each edge. Megaton is used more for nukes. Maybe they should have used a million tons.

6.5 shooter · #3 06-19-2019, 09:58 PM

1 Megatonne or metric megaton (unit of mass) is equal to 1,000,000 metric tons. A metric ton is exactly 1000 kilograms (SI base unit) making a megatonne equal to 1000000000 kilograms. 1 Mt = 1000000000 kg.

So how many "tons" of CO2 do we produce..?? Plus co2 is not a pollutant...

Canada's carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel and cement production reached about 573 million metric tons in 2017, compared to 496 million metric tons in 1995.

SOOOOOOO.....573 0f those cubes for the ENTIRE country of Canada....so a fly on an Elephants arse....plus all our boreal forests would reduce the actual number to.....ZERO.

They should have used cubes...but I am sure this is much more dramatic.

CaberTosser · #4 06-19-2019, 10:20 PM

CO2 is tree and plant food

bloopbloob · #5 06-19-2019, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by CaberTosser

CO2 is tree and plant food

I want your post taxed. Makes way too much sense.

fishnguy · #6 06-19-2019, 10:47 PM

That’s the problem. I am aware that a megaton is one billion kilograms. I can imagine/know more or less what a ton of water looks like. Not so much with gas though. Hence the question. Thought someone can give me an idea what a tone of gas would look like, fully compressed, I am assuming. Not sure what they were trying to picture and didn’t read the article. Not a fan of reading material that starts with false impressions.

Here is the article if anyone is interested: https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactive...onting-carbon/

The graph in the article shows that we are at 716 MT currently.

P.S. I know how most of you feel about climate change, have been reading this forum long enough. Really just want to know what a billion kg of gas looks like