Oh, and how good the oxidation is. Am I totally wrong here? But you cannot convert BTU's to tonnes of CO2. You could estimate how many tonnes of CO2 you'll get from burning a particular fuel which, in return will give out so many BTU's.
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A BTU is a measure of heat and a ton is measure of weight or mass (depending on what you are measuring and how). I am not aware of a similar equation to change an apple to an orange.
IRstuff, is that a convention? Would you know how this was determined? I am sure I'll face this in the near future and would like to look less ignorant than I am
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Table 3 of the linked doc says:
1 Million Btu's = 55kg CO2 (121 lb)
I think this is what you are looking for. The equivalence of Btu's in CO2. This is a calculation that works back through the chain of usage, conversion, transmission, generation and I guess is done on national averages for each (I didn't read the whole document!).
