Hmm, that is quite some number. Perhaps in the order to 0.7 billion tonnes only?

…sing a 50/50 blend of wind and solar to power all our electricity needs in 2018 would still produce 713,639 billion tonnes of CO²! In fact, we would produce far more as the vast bulk of the carbon is emitted when the panels…
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Hmm, that is quite some number. Perhaps in the order to 0.7 billion tonnes only?
(50g+11g)/2/kWh * 23,398 * 10^9 kWh =
713,639*10^9 g =713,639,000 t => ~0.7Gt
which is 2% of the current annual CO2 emission.
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