What Does a Ton of CO2 Look Like?

March 10th, 2008 by jayb

Dave Ames, a science teacher at Cohasset High School in Cohasset, Massachusetts built a large cube that represents the size of 1 ton of carbon dioxide. Take a look.

OK, yes.  CO2 (carbon dioxide) is invisible.  But it's still interesting to see how much space a ton of CO2 would take up if it were sitting in front of you. 

daily per capita residential energy consumption - san diego 2010

Harvesting water

An alternative is dew harvesting - or fog harvesting. 

"New self-assembling photovoltaic technology can keep repairing itself to avoid any loss in performance." 

This chart is dynamically updated. This page reads data from a government archive of water heights for Lake Mead from 1935 to the present, and draws the chart on that basis.

1994 Rainfall in San Diego county

2004 Rainfall in the San Diego Region