We invite you to make
your own Energy Conversion table by downloading our
Energy Rosetta Conversion
spreadsheet and substituting the values applicable
to your needs.
If you download the table
you can click on the cells with red corners to see the
assumptions used in making the table. You can then
substitute values appropriate to your location and needs.
The spreadsheet table
contains more columns than shown here. It shows typical
values for the energy content of each fuel. It also shows
the environmental cost of each fuel based for instance on
a carbon dioxide credit of $30/ton. (Change to suit your
needs below) and the total local plus environmental
costs.
Electricity is a
particularly difficult energy form to evaluate since some
of it is almost free (from hydroelectric dams long since
paid for) while newer sources reflect fuel or nuclear
costs. To illustrate the range an value of electric costs
I have included the humble AA battery which has a cost of
$200 per kWh, 2400 times what we pay on the grid. Many
people do not have access to grid based power and are
paying $1-$10 for battery stored power or diesel generated
power.
We have added a number of different prices for biomass to
show the wide spread between highly processed biomass
(pellets) and �junk� biomass (negative tipping fee).
