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That seems a lot, 80%. But after reading several times your calculation, it seems legit. Thanks. Then, as a conclusion, when you eat you delay 20% of your car
by henearkr 6y ago
That seems a lot, 80%.
But after reading several times your calculation, it seems legit. Thanks.
Then, as a conclusion, when you eat you delay 20% of your carbon footprint, and a fraction of these 20% may well be stored for a long duration (in sediments, or back into the food chain, etc).
Then again, similarly, the fallen leaves of trees may store a fraction of their carbon for a long duration.
- saalweachter 6y agoYou can basically look at that 80% as the efficiency of the body machine. To a first approximation, once we have all the matter needed to build a body, you are just taking in carbon to oxidize it for fuel.