Energy conversions

By cdwan, on November 2nd, 2005%

More tinkering with numbers.

The DOE’s energy calculator is awesome.

I’m very confused right now.

1 kwh = 3412BTU 1 gallon of heating oil is 139,000BTU

Yearly kwh consumption: 1.291e3 * 3.412e3 = 4.4e6 Yearly fuel consumption: 1.162e3 * 1.38000e5 = 1.6e8

This isn’t all that surprising, since we use the oil to both heat . . . → Read More: Energy conversions

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Energy

By cdwan, on November 2nd, 2005%

I’m tinkering with data, now that I’ve got a full year of usage information on my house.

* We burned 1162.3 gallons of heating oil last year ($1825) * We burned 1291.06 kwh of electricity last year. ($1291) * We used 5,100 gallons cubic feet of water last year. ($199)

I also noticed that . . . → Read More: Energy

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