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 |