RNC08's Blog

By reading my power bill and adding the kilowatts of gas I burn my “non food related”* energy per day is 131.81 KW (kilowatts) per day...

For your calculation gas contains 39 KW of energy ,and a gallon of propane gas contains 26.3 KW .I was surprised to find that I am not an average gas user (my score is lower than most and almost equal to my electric consumption) for averaging my daily gas consumption I added all my gas purchases per month (two cars, 1 van , 1 large truck, 1 boat , 2 motor cycles, 1 yard tractor and one lawn mower the small yard appliances do not count as they add up to less than a gallon every 2 months together but are included in my total gas purchases) my actual gas purchases add up to 1.9 gallons a day , I do not use a lot of propane gas but my annual average is 1.5 gallons per day..

*Food energy , a single calorie of human food in the untied states cost 5 times more energy at consumption than it contains RE: 1 calorie of food is equal to 116 watts of energy but requires 580 watts of energy to grow/process/package/transport so by multiplying your daily calorie intake by the number 580 we get the number of “watts” per day we consume now divide that by 1000 and we have the KW of energy used per day to produce the food we consume my score is 870 KW per day

I know its shocking to think that the “world energy problem” is not parked in my front yard as much as it is on the plate in front of me ! But there are ways to reduce the amount of energy we use for eating every day 1 eat foods that are produced locally (avoid imported foods) 2 try to eat foods that have less processing and packaging 3 eat foods that have less fertilizer IE organic foods ...

I would be interested to see how much energy other users are consuming per day ....