Humans burning Carbon - let me tell you how much is burnt per hour!

Chinese Iron foundry it is 1300BC !

Jun 6, 1000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yuan_Dynasty_-_waterwheels_and_smelting.png

Iron furnace burning charcoal

Jun 6, 1753

300 kg of trees burn t here per hour to make the charcoal which then powered this furnace, perhaps 30 kg of carbon per hour.
it was used to make iron for canon and canon balls. Large amounts of Scottish forest were destroyed.
Pic http://www.flickr.com/photos/bebopgirl1969/4623805703/

Steam boat SS great Britain launched

Jun 4, 1843

Maybe around 500 kg per hour ( coal burnt) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SS_Great_Britain_bow_view.jpg

World War two bomber

Jun 4, 1942

1600 kg per hour
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Avro_Lancaster_Mk_1_ExCC.jpg

Jet Transport

Period: Jun 6, 1944 to Jun 6, 2010

Steam locomotive

Jun 4, 1950

1000 kg per hour coal burnt

first flight of Concorde

Jun 4, 1969

Jumbo Jet

Jun 4, 1971

Burns about 12000 kg of Carbon per hour!

Commercial flight concorde

Jun 4, 1976

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38513000/jpg/_38513387_concorde_ap238.jpg 25 000 kg of carbon per hour

Coal fired electricity power station

Jun 4, 1985

1500 000 kg of carbon ( coal ) per hour used to make up to

Oasis cruise ship gores in to service

Jun 6, 2009

28 000 lites of diesel per hour! SO around 28 000 kg of carbon burnt per hour to move this monster board of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Oasis_of_the_Seas