I have clients who actually want to elevate co2 levels locally Consider this The overall chemical formula for alcoholic fermentation is: C6H12O6 → 2 C2H5OH + 2 CO2 Yeast is in the noise So a 20 lb tank from the welder is 35$.. which equals 77 lbs of sugar and 1.2 lbs of yeast
Funky Little Facts at the Love Science Shack.. the removal of C02 from one cubic meter of air can be viewed as an integral part of producing 7 kJ of thermal energy from coal, or 10 kJ of energy from gasoline. I wonder how much we paid for this study and which idiot ******* asked for it to be done https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1976/4d0ef804f5447268659045527b7f99769395.pdf
Of course the question is how much CO2 is absorbed by growing the sugar? As much CO2 that is produced, much of the carbon that is in the sugar stays as alcohol. Of course we humans produce CO2 during metabolism so just drinking beer and eating chips and bean dip is causing a local rise in CO2 and the worse part is methane contributes more to global warming than CO2 so that beer and bean dip produces more greenhouse gases than the fermentation of sugar to alcohol.
Beer caused agriculture. Agriculture caused civilization. Barley, rye, oats, wheat and hops take CO2 from the air.
Consider an 18 oz bag of Fritos that cost $4. About 25% of the cost of farming corn is for energy. As you get into high-speed, automated production for food products, the energy demand increases. Fuel for transportation also plays a large role. In the end, for a $4 bag of chips, 30-50% of the cost of that product can be traced back to energy costs. Let's say that for Fritos, it's 40% of the cost. So we have $1.60 in energy per 18 oz bag. That is the cost of about 1/2 gallon of fuel. And for every gallon of fuel consumed, about 19 pounds of CO2 are produced. So the 18 oz bag of chips likely results in something around 9 pounds of CO2 produced, to bring the chips to your hands. Note that 1 lb [16 oz] of raw corn sells for about 14 cents.
