[Discuss] [Mostly OT:] Visualizing Canada's Carbon

[pw]

Hello,

This doesn't have much to do with linux
other than I used gnumeric to do some calculations
to help visualize Canada's carbon emissions and
what it would take to remediate or even break even.

I thought perhaps people may be interested.

Canada averages
5.07 tonnes Carbon/per capita

Population of Canada 33,017,622

33,017,622 * 5.07 tonnes = 167,399,343.54 tonnes (2006)

Requires permanently burying 376,646,357.25 tonnes of wood
to remove from atmosphere.

Same as 753,292,714.497 cubic metres of wood at 500 kg/m3 density

Same as a cube of wood stacked 909 metres x 909 metres x 909 metres

=751,089,429 cubic meters of lumber.

An average of 548 million cubic meters of lumber produced
by canada each year.

I think I'd like an alternate energy source for
my computer...
Is anyone running on wind generation?

Peter