[Land-speed] Petrol breakdown, not LSR

[Ed Weldon]

Just for grins-- Here in California for electric power we do about 25%
nuclear, 10-20% hydroelectric, a small amount of solar, wind power and
geothermal, maybe less than 10%.  The rest is natural gas. NO COAL ALLOWED
IN CALIFORNIA.  At my house (Bay area, 1000ft elevation) we run about 4000
degree days per winter for heating with a min temp around 30F.  Summer
maximums are running maybe 15-20 days over 100F (10-15% humidity) when we
need to air condition for a few hours. Fortunately in our dry climate it
cools down 20-30 degrees at night in the summer. With my graduated PG&E
electric costs we end up paying 38 cents per KWH for electricity when we air
condition or couldn't use the pellet stove in the winter during pellet fuel
shortages.  That's right, 38 cents per KWH!   Really stings.  Stove pellets
here run about $325 a ton which last for my 1400 sq ft house about 3/4 of
the winter season.  Not all that impossible though.  What hurts more is the
prospect of a $1000 gasoline cost to tow a race car to the Salt, run around
there for 7 days and tow home.
Ed Weldon  Los Gatos, CA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "joseph lance" <jolylance at earthlink.net>
To: "Landspeed" <Land-speed at Autox.team.net>; <Bobbyhotrods at comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Petrol breakdown, not LSR


> Of the total input energy (coal, nuclear, natural gas, hydro, and others)
> used by power plants to generate electricity, oil is only a tiny
percentage.
> I used to do a lot of work with those numbers.
> You can find those numbers by starting with the Department of Energy's web
> site but you have to work your way through a lot of stuff to find it--the
> numbers are updated annually.
> >From memory, approximately: nuke ~ 20%, coal ~ 50%, natural gas is next
> biggie, hydro ~ 5%, solar & wind ~ 1%  This is electrical generation only.
> Natural gas could be a looming supply and price problem, we are importing
> increasing amounts of the stuff because of environmental restrictions on
> tapping our own off shore. Us people in the north who use it for home
> heating have seen major price increases in the last few years--could get
> chilly for us.
> Lance