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by zancy on 07/03/08

Global warming is increase the average measured temperature of the Earth's. The Earth's climate is changed in response t...

Algae vs. Cellulose

by Rod Handeland on 07/03/08

With all the urgency of carbon dioxide capture from coal electric plants, why aren’t algae systems being tested on com...

Algae vs. Cellulose

by Algae Biofuel Vs. Cellulose Ethanol | GreenEnergyTrends - Stream on 07/03/08

[...] a good comparison of algae biofuel vs cellulose ethanol at EcoWorld that was just posted today.. Algae isn’t...

Plasco's MSW to Energy

by jose pablo chaves on 07/02/08

A group of investors from Costa Rica are going to Canada (Plasco HQ), Genetech (conn) and Covanta Energy (NJ). We are...

ZENN Cars & EEStor's

by bob Deverell on 06/30/08

Some people have not realised why Zenn was chosen. EESTOR's strategy should now be clear. Look at EESTOR like Intel. I ...

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Macro Energy Unit Conversions

(to calculate: click curser on, then off, yellow input cell)

quadrillion btu's
		quad btu
		exajoules
		million tons oil
		billion cubic meters
		gigawatt-years
		million tons coal
		million bbl oil

exajoules
		quad btu
		exajoules
		million tons oil
		billion cubic meters
		gigawatt-years
		million tons coal
		million bbl oil

million tons oil
		quad btu
		exajoules
		million tons oil
		billion cubic meters
		gigawatt-years
		million tons coal
		million bbl oil

billion cubic meters natural gas
		quad btu
		exajoules
		million tons oil
		billion cubic meters
		gigawatt-years
		million tons coal
		million bbl oil

gigawatt-years electricity
		quad btu
		exajoules
		million tons oil
		billion cubic meters
		gigawatt-years
		million tons coal
		million bbl oil

million tons coal
		quad btu
		exajoules
		million tons oil
		billion cubic meters
		gigawatt-years
		million tons coal
		million bbl oil

million barrels oil
		quad btu
		exajoules
		million tons oil
		billion cubic meters
		gigawatt-years
		million tons coal
		million bbl oil

How to use this calculator:

(1) It is sometimes necessary to click on one of the yellow input cells, then click somewhere else on the screen in order to prompt the interactive spreadsheet to calculate and display results.

(2) Yellow cells are input cells - you may enter your own assumptions in these cells.

(3) When you refresh the screen, the original default assumptions will reappear in the yellow input cells.

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California Global Warming Act

Assembly Bill 32, signed into law by California Governor Schwarzenegger in late 2006, took a big step closer to implementatio...

Algae vs. Cellulose

We have reported on the state of cellulosic ethanol development, and the potential of cellulosic ethanol, in our recent feat...

Energy Intensity

One of the most useful ways to measure how efficiently we use energy is to calculate how many units of energy are required to...

Scope Insensitivity

Al Gore has said Americans are addicted to "short term thinking." He is correct. Even in the business world, which is presum...

Caterpillar and CleanAIR

We have never simply posted a press release, but they remain essential to keeping track of what's going on out there. Today w...

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Shrimp Survivalists

Just a little rain transforms the desert floor into an entirely different atmosphere. Branchiopod cysts that mingle with the ...

Nanoventskin-MicroTurbines

Air power is becoming a more common investment. Huge turbines line coasts and hills where constant winds whip through to spin...

The Living Tower

Getting fruits and vegetables onto the kitchen table is a stressful affair. Farmers constantly deal with pests, weather chan...

Mohawk-Yarn From Plastic

Companies are looking to landfills to make their products more "green" by using recycled materials that would otherwise end u...

Garbage Fueled Garbage Trucks

Landfill gas is an appealing alternative to increasingly expensive oil-based fuels. This type of biogas is a mixture of metha...

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For the last few weeks it's tomatos, those wonderful fruits. Over 300 cases of salmonella poisoning from eating tomatoes (ma...

Do BBQs Cause Cancer?

In the U.S., Memorial day is BBQ day, especially this year when gasoline prices make lots of folks prefer to stay home and ha...

The Alarm Industry

by Marc Morano - Newsweek Magazine's cover story of August 13, 2007 entitled, "The Truth About Denial" contains very littl...

India Incentivizes Renewables

Earlier this month at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2008, heads of state, ministers, policymakers, corporate leade...

Emissions Trading in China

By Terry Wang, Interfax China, March 6, 2008 China is ready to adopt a nationwide permit-based pollutant emission trading ...

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