The below has been derived from Environmental Accounting: Emergy and Environmental Decision Making, by Howard T. Odum, pg. 305-11 and noted references.

Transformities
  sej/J sej/g X 1.00E+09
Plant products, fuels, and electricity
Gross production, estuary 4,700  
Plantation Pine 7,511 0.1
Net production, estuary 9,000  
Estuarine organic matter 11,000  
Peat 19,000 0.36
Mulberry leaves 24,000  
Rain Forest Logs 32,000 0.39
Lignite 37,000  
Cornstalks 39,000  
Coal 40,000  
Rainforest wood, transported & chipped 44,000  
Natural Gas 48,000  
Crude Oil 54,000 Back
Ethanol 60,000  
Liquid motor fuel 66,000  
Corn 83,000 1.43
Charcoal 106,000  
Coal Power Plant Electricity 160,000  
Electric Power, average 173,000  
Cotton 860,000  
Butter 1,300,000  
Smaller Estuarine animals 1,500,000  
Caterpillar pupae 2,000,000  
Mutton 2,000,000  
Upper consumers, estuary 3,000,000  
Silk 3,400,000 72
Veal 4,000,000  
Wool 4,400,000  
Aquaculture shrimp 13,000,000  
Mass emergy of Global Flows
Global Solar Insolation 1  
Surface wind 1,496  
Convective Earth Heat 6,055  
Oceanic rain, chemical potential 7,435  
Physical energy, rain on land 10,488  
Tidal Energy absorbed 16,842  
Volcanic Heat 18,000  
Chemical energy, rain on land 18,199  
Physical stream energy 27,874  
Waves absorbed on shore 30,550  
Continental earth cycle, heat flow 34,377  
Chemical stream energy 48,459  
Oceanic upwelling, inorganic carbon 780,000 0.18
Oceanic upwelling, nitrate nitrogen 2,600,000 1.05
Oceanic upwelling, phosphate 38,000,000 9.5
Earth Substances
Ocean floor
Ocean basalt   0.15
Pelagic and abyssal sediments   0.97
     
Continents    
Granitic rocks   0.5
Mountains on land   1.12
Metamorphic rocks   1.45
Continental sediment Back 1.88
Volcanic extrusion at surface   4.5
Global sedimentary cycle
Shale 10,000,000 1.0
Limestone 1,620,000 1.0
Sandstone 20,000,000 1.0
Evaporites 3,300,000 1.0
Coal 40,000 1.0
Sedimentary Iron Ore 62,000,000 1.0
Bauxite(Aluminium ore) 15,000,000 1.0
Potassium fertilizer 3,000,000 1.1
Clay from weathering   1.71
Soil clay from shale   2.0
Top soil organic matter 74,000  
Ammonia fertilizer 1,860,000 3.8
Phosphate fertilizer 10,100,000 3.9

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