Comment Comment by npongratz > 100 gallons of gasoline also creates a ton of CO2 for context.I thought I understood the Law of Conservation of Mass, but I guess I do not. If 100 gallons of gasoline has a mass of ~283.49 kg [0], how is a ton of carbon dioxide created from this?[0] Maybe I'm wrong to use the first site that came up, but I used http://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/volume-to-weight/substanc... parent npongratz 9 years ago
I thought I understood the Law of Conservation of Mass, but I guess I do not. If 100 gallons of gasoline has a mass of ~283.49 kg [0], how is a ton of carbon dioxide created from this?
[0] Maybe I'm wrong to use the first site that came up, but I used http://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/volume-to-weight/substanc...