D Question 35
2 pts
Richie learned in his environmental science class that using biofuels instead of fossil fuels could decrease the amount of greenhouse gases released
into the atmosphere. Richie wants to be carbon-neutral, so he decides to replace the oil fumace in his small house with a corn stove, which uses whole
kernels of com as fuel. Richie's friend Angela points out that Richie may have failed to take a certain fact into consideration when he decided to buy
the corn stove. Specifically, Richie probably did not consider that
com sloves are expensive, and Richie could have used the money to plant trees instead of buying the stove
burning cornreleases carbon dioxide, so there is no decrease in the amount of greenhouse gases being released
com requires a good deal of energy to produce and a wood pellet stove would have probably been a more carbon-neutral choice
com stoves tuve been shown to be dangerous because, unlike furnaces, they can leak carbon monoxide