It released almost a ton of CO2.

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    I imagine it includes the extraction, processing and delivery of the fuel?

    From a rudimentary chemistry understanding, changing a lighter hydrogen atom for a heavier oxygen atom (burning hydrocarbon -> H2O + CO2) will increase the mass. I dunno how applicable that is in the real world tho

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      The atoms themselves aren’t changing, you’d have to do fusion or fission for that. It’s the molecules that are changing.

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        I meant “swapping” a hydrogen atom for an oxygen atom within a molecule as part of the chemical reaction of combustion.
        I didn’t explain it well, tho