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Comparing Cost and Emissions for Fuels and
Furnaces |
Fuel Comparison Calculator ...
Gary
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 This
is our own calculator to compare the cost and CO2 emissions for various
types of heating systems and fuels.
Includes geothermal heat pumps, and some biofuels.
The Calculator... |
Fuel Cost
Calculator
From BuildingGreen.com
http://www.buildinggreen.com/calc/fuel_cost.cfm
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 This
is a nice fuel calculator for comparing fuel costs for various fuels and
heat plants.
A good feature of this one is that it includes duct losses for various kinds
of duct systems -- these are sometimes large and often overlooked. |
Fuel Cost Comparison Calculator
From Hearth.com
http://hearth.com ...
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 This
is a nice fuel cost comparison calculator.Give you a comparison of
the cost of heating with 8 different fuels.
Very nice. |
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Heat Content of Various Fuels |
| Heat Content of Common Fuels
Fuel BTU
Wood Heating Values
Maine Public Service (pdf)
EERE Fuel Data Sheet (pdf) |
Heat content in BTU for common fuels |
| Fuel Cost Comparison Chart
www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ageng/structu/ae1015a.pdf
Explanation for chart:
www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ageng/structu/ae1015.htm |
Handy chart that gives equivalent
fuel prices for a wide variety of common and uncommon fuels, including
biomass fuels. For example, electricity at 10 cents per KWH is equivalent
to burning barley at $7.49 a bushel.
Accounts for efficiency of the burning. |
| Fuel Energy Equivalence Calculator
SHEC labs
http://www.shec-labs.com/calc/ |
Compare fuels for energy content. |
| Heating System Efficiency
Furnace Efic |
Efficiency for various types of heating systems
and fuels. |
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Carbon Content of Fuels |
Carbon produced per billion BTU for
various fuels |
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Fuel
Information |
| Energy Information Administration
http://www.eia.doe.gov/
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Current and historical fuel price
data for oil, gas, propane, and electricity. Future fuel price
outlooks. Greenhouse gas emissions data. |
| EERE Alternative Fuels Data
Center
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/afdc/
This page has some good summaries of recent trends:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/flash/flash.html
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 The
EERE's alternative fuels site. A wealth of information on alternative
fuels: properties, incentive programs, models, infrastructure... |
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Fuel Use for Different Modes of Transportation |
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Energy Efficiency of Different
Modes of Transportation -- compiled by James Strickland...
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Very extensive list of the fuel efficiency of many modes of transportation
-- cars, buses, airplanes, ships, ... Compare traveling on the Queen Mary
to a scooter to a train and many more. |
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Energy Statistics Sites |
| OpenDI -- Open Energy Info
http://en.openei.org/wiki/Gateway:U.S._OpenLabs
http://en.openei.org/wiki/Main_Page
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New DOE site -- I'm having a little trouble figuring out exactly what this
is about, but there does seem to be a lot of useful energy related data
here. |
