Carbon Dioxide from Methane

Climate, Education, Environment, Global, , , , ,

DSC00729A model of a methane molecule and two oxygen molecules, the reactants  when we burn methane (natural gas) in air.  The methane molecules is made of one carbon atom (black)  and four hydrogen atoms (white).   Methane is  a  hydrocarbo.  It is also a fossil fuel.  The element oxygen occurs in the atmosphere as two oxygen atoms (red) combined into a molecule.   When the methane burns, the above reactants become rearranged into the products below, with the release of energy.

DSC00728 These are the products formed, carbon dioxide and water,  when methane burns in oxygen.  The leftmost molecule is carbon dioxide, made up of one carbon atom (black)  and two oxygen atoms (red).  Each of the two water molecules is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.  Carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas which is put into the atmosphere when methane, or any fossil fuel is burned.  This is  the source of our global warming.

 

 

Everything Makes a Difference

Evolution, Fact and Opinion,

Scan genographic  We are all survivors of our long ancestries!

An example of the fact that everything we do matters is the fact that everything our ancestors did is written into our genes indirectly.

We are all survivors of the eons of evolution that went before us, and the tens of thousands of years before the present as modern humans.  To learn more, search for the Genographic Project online.

Everything And Everyone On Earth Is Interconnected

Climate, Global, Words

 

DSC00723 Everybody came out of East Africa.

The origin of mankind is East Africa. For more information on this please see the Genographic Project  by searching those words online.

We are all related, and we all have greater or lesser amounts of Neanderthal DNA in the bulk of our DNA, (but not in those portions traceable by way of our female or male parentage.

We all live on this earth which has provided our beloved home and different heritages, and we all inhale oxygen, and exhale carbon dioxide, and we all manage to provide ourselves with a certain viable temperature range.  We also rely on food which needs certain specific conditions in which to flourish, and all of which requires water.

So we are all interconnected.