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PolicyPete: energy content graph

Unread postby rogerhb » Tue 18 Oct 2005, 20:01:36

Policy Pete has an excellent graph showing energy content of fuels. The numbers are as follows:

(numbers guessed from graph)

Natural gas: 46
Crude oil: 38
Coal: 25
Cattle manure: 15
Firewood: 15
Municipal trash: 10
Oil shale: 4
Baked potatoes: 4

Which is great in graphic form. Basically oil shale has less energy than trash and about the same as baked potatoes.
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Re: PolicyPete: energy content graph

Unread postby Cleisthenis » Thu 20 Oct 2005, 09:39:18

I find that somewhat hard to believe.... 8O
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Re: PolicyPete: energy content graph

Unread postby killJOY » Thu 20 Oct 2005, 09:56:03

Image

I like it, I like it!

The other thing about "oil" "shales":

"THEY PLUMP WHEN YOU COOK 'EM!"
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Re: PolicyPete: energy content graph

Unread postby Dezakin » Fri 21 Oct 2005, 17:37:45

Try sticking uranium or thorium on those graphs. It doesnt work very well, and the resource base is incredibly vast (all the way down the mantle rather than sedimentary layers.)
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