This seems like a better place to point out (rather than editing the original to say something different) that this actually undermines the argument: stainless steel is only about 6kg CO2 per kg, and a gallon of gas burned is around 8.
That number for steel is a lot lower than I expected, but here it is:
This seems like a better place to point out (rather than editing the original to say something different) that this actually undermines the argument: stainless steel is only about 6kg CO2 per kg, and a gallon of gas burned is around 8.
That number for steel is a lot lower than I expected, but here it is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_energy#In_common_mate...