USA Carbon Footprints of Grills, by Fuel & Grill Type, 2022–27

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript reports the USA carbon footprints of grills, by fuel & grill type during 2022-2027. This topic is interesting and important. The following issues should be addressed.

1. Figure 1 isn't clear, please modify is and draw the picture by a software.

2. The footprints of grilling in the past years of US should be summarized in the introduction part.  

3. Also in the discussion part, the discussion of  carbon footprints of grills in the past years can be compared with those of 2022-2027. 

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The present manuscript entitled “USA carbon footprints of grills, by fuel & grill type, 2022-27” authored by Eric and Alex describes the Grill-specific footprints for common fuels/grill types in the USA are estimated from public information and data from a major grill manufacturer. These are a function of both 1) a fuel’s foot print and 2) a grill’s efficiency of cooking. The authors report an interesting approach and the presentation of the work is clear. The objective and justification of the work are clear, and the experimental work is significant. The study is accurate and adequate, and thus, I would recommend it for publication in Fuels. However, certain Minor issues are detailed below to improve the quality of the manuscript.

I advise the authors to take the following points into account while revising their manuscript.

Comment 1: There are some typographical errors in the manuscript text, so the authors need to correct them in the revised manuscript. In the whole manuscript, the authors must be taken care of the superscripts and subscripts, and abbreviations.

Comment 2: Abstract is poorly written, it needs to be revised.

Comment 3: The authors need to add and discuss some more recent literature in the introduction section to strengthen the background of their work.

Comment 4: The homogeneity of the manuscript text font needs to be maintained according to the journal guidelines.

Comment 5: Figure 1 needs to be drawn in MS powerpoint and replace the figure.

Comment 6: The authors should explore and discuss the results section with some more references to prepare a better discussion.

Comment 7: The Conclusions Section needs to be revised

 

Comment 8: The homogeneity of the reference section needs to be maintained. Please check and revise accordingly to the journal's instructions.

 

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Reviewer 3 Report

 A single impact life cycle assessment considering greenhouse gas emissions interpreted in terms of climate change impact is commonly referred to as a carbon footprint. Different carbon footprint can be obtained by proper calculation and be used to evaluate the influence of different activity.

The manuscript calculate the carbon footprint of USA grills. It sounds interesting, however, the calculation is a little rough  and without much new information. It is more suitable to be report outside academia, as the previous people have done.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

It can be accepted for the present form. 

Author Response

Thank you very much!

Reviewer 3 Report

It can be accepted after minor revision.

Author Response

Thank you very much!