FILL THE TABLE WITH DATA (PUT IN YOUR OWN DATA AS WELL) Lab 3—Calculate Your Hou
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FILL THE TABLE WITH DATA (PUT IN YOUR OWN DATA AS WELL)
Lab 3—Calculate Your Household Carbon Footprint
DATA:
elecrticity use per month: 200 kwh per month: 12,000 kwh per year
Natural Gas consumption (cu.ft): 10 gigajoules a month= 120 gigajoules year=113738 cu.ft yearly household use
Gasoline(L):125 L permonth , 1500 per year
(other) ex.wood: 400 pounds for 4 months of winter pounds
Instructions
1.Using three (3) online calculators, calculate your household’s carbon footprint for one year. Energy use is different in different seasons, so it is best to include a full year of data, to account for all four seasons.
DATA: FIND ANSWERS FOR THE WHOLE YEAR
Record the data that you entered for each online calculator, and summarize the data in a table that will be included in your report. The table might look something like this:
Data
ABC Calculator
Canadian Gov’t Calculator
Green Calculator
Electricity use (kWh)
Natural gas consumption (cu. ft.)
Gasoline (L)
(other?)
Household carbon footprint
In another table, record any suggestions on reducing your footprint given to you by the online carbon footprint calculators.
make sure you have two tables
1.A discussion of the similarities and differences among the results and suggestions from each site. (e.g., What might cause the differences? Did each calculator request identical information? Were the units the same? Could the different calculators be based on different assumptions that only apply to certain geographic areas?)
Data
ABC Calculator
Canadian Gov’t Calculator
Green Calculator
Electricity use (kWh)
Natural gas consumption (cu. ft.)
Gasoline (L)
(other?)
Household carbon footprint
Explanation / Answer
Electricity: 200 KWh/month = 12000 KWh/year
Natural Gas: 120 GJ/year = 33333.33 KWh/year
Gasoline (LPG): 1500 L/year
Wood: 400 lb/year = 181.437 kg/year
ABC Calculator = 25807 kg of CO2
Canada Govt. Calculator = 10.55 metric tonnes of CO2
Green Calculator: N/A (could not locate the website)
Different calculators use different units and relate to different areas/regions which could be the reason behind the difference in the values obtained.
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