1st year Electrical Engineering question help :)

I have my electrical exam next week for my first year at uni, and am stuck on a question which i think may help me out in the exam. Any help would be great thanks :)

Here is the question:

Assume that all electrical energy consumed by a household is generated by burning fossil fuels and that the resulting annual emission of CO2 is 8 tonnes per kW of generated power. Calculate the household’s related annual CO2 emissions if its average daily usage of electrical energy is 10kWh.

Sorry, I didn't see that CO2 emission rate was in 8 tonnes per kW annually.

So 10kWh/day * (1day/24h) * 8tonnes/(kW*year). You will get a number with units in tonnes/year.

@Christopher - The first problem I was given in Physics was to find how much land would be necessary to power all of America's needs with pure solar power, and the answer turned out that it would take up a good fraction of the United States land area. Would you say that that problem was an anti-liberal, pro-Global Warming (as in I want Global Warming to happen so it destroys human society), anti-solar power question that has nothing to do with Physics?

It's 10 * (1/24) * 8

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oh yep, i get that, thanks for that :)

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This is not an electrical engineering question: this is a liberal, save-the-planet question that really has nothing to do with electrical engineering.