Given that the car does 5,000 miles a year on average and the scooter mileage is around 500, we can finally calculate our current total emissions (hold breath)…
And the answer is: 21.8 tonnes of CO2 a year. This comes 89% from home energy and 11% from transport.
And we have to consider that:
this doesn’t allow for […]
Signed up with Good Energy. Their system is very clear, although the comparisons with the present are more complicated. Their rate is going to be 8.73p for kWh for daytime usage. The compares with our current Powergen rates of 7.96, but with the first 200 units at 10.18. However this is based on a day/night […]
First real numbers look horrifying:
yearly use of heating oil (hot water, heating and pool) was 6245 litres
yearly use of electricity (lights and gadgets) was 20,700 kWhs
This computes to CO2 emisions of:
oil = 19,476 kgs of CO2 per year
electricity = 9,192 kgs of CO2 per year
Giving a total of 28,668 kgs per year, or more than […]
I found a good carbon calculator at the Safe Climate site. I won’t be able to get our own totals until I’m back home with the utility bills, but it does give some of the key conversion ratios:
heating oil - multiply gallons of oil by 11.81 to get kgs of CO2
petrol - multiply gallons by […]