Hello Jack,
The power that’s generated to fuel the house is one of the biggest sources of CO2 emissions but pretty much everything in a house has it’s own carbon footprint.
Manufacturing processes produce a lot of CO2 and this is particularly true of raw materials that require a lot of processing; thus metals and plastics have a larger carbon footprint that wooden or natural fibre products. Of all the common materials found in a home it’s the aluminium ones which are the worst, this is because the manufacturing process uses immense amounts of energy (aluminium smelters often require their own power stations).
The actual house itself will have created a lot of CO2 during the construction. The cement industry produces very significant amounts of CO2 and as such the construction of a single house will produce several tonnes of CO2 emissions just from the cement required.
The combustion of natural gas within a home (cooking, water heating etc) is also a significant producer of CO2. The gas, be it methane, propane, butane etc is made up of chains of hydrogen and carbon atoms, when burned the chains break down and the carbon combines with oxygen from the air to produce CO2, the hydrogen forms H2O.
CO2 is a basic necessity for nearly every form of life on earth. If CO2 is a pollutant then so is water and oxygen. AGW cultists are suffering from a severe form of mental illness.
What does it matter? CO2 does NOT drive climate like Alarmists want you to believe.
Top climate scientists say there is no man-made Global Warming.
The Great Global Warming Swindle
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C, you just nailed it . !
In a typical house, are there any sources of CO2 emissions? Or do all the emissions come from the power stations supplying the homes?
