After taking the BP Energy Calculator I found that my carbon footprint was lower than the U.S. average. Honestly, I was just a little surprised. I don’t feel that this is entirely accurate. I come from a small village off of the coast of Alaska. Heating our house is done with stove oil. In the winter months temperatures can drop to forty below zero. The temperature hovered around forty below for about a month this past winter. The house we live in was built in 1985; some renovations were done since then, but the house is far from being one hundred percent energy efficient. A lot of oil is used to heat up the house and to boil the water. Another factor is our trash. The town I live in is small and remote. The trash out there used to be burnt by open fire at the dump site until this past summer. I would imagine that a small town of seven hundred is capable of a fair amount of trash, and burning that trash not only pollutes the air, but creates carbon dioxide, right?
I am happy something like BP Energy Calculator is available for the public. Although it may not be totally accurate, it will get people thinking of their energy usage. Take the test, is simple and short. Get the numbers to your carbon footprint. You may be surprised.
Check it out:
http://bpenergylab.bp.com/
fyi: my results
18.8 tones CO2 per year
This is lower than the USA average of 23.9 tones per year
27192 kWh per year
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