• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ok, so each person is a little less than 20% carbon, so a pile of 177 bodies would contain about 2000 kilos of carbon.

    Dont forget that almost all of that carbon will be lost as CO2 during oxidation.

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      1 year ago

      You probably meant to reply to the parent comment, as this is one of the “weird assumptions” I explicitly called out (that almost all of the carbon would be lost).