Electricity

To find out how many kWh you have used have a look on the back of your power bills for the past year.

A Kilowatt hour (kWh) is the amount of electricity which provides 1000 Watts for an hour. e.g. If an office runs 4 computers rated at 250 Watts each for 1 hour, that uses a kWh of electricity. In Alice Springs, a kWh costs 14cents.
Electricity in Alice Springs is produced by burning natural gas, not coal, so it produces less CO2 that other states. In Alice, every kWh generates 0.64 kg of CO2.
If you only have 1 bill, please do not leave the other bill boxes blank- have a guess based on the bill you do have!

Gas

Enter the amount of LPG you use per year, excluding transport

Large domestic bottles of Liquid petroleum Gas (LPG) are 90kg. Camping bottles are 45 or 30kg. LPG has emissions of 3.3kg of CO2 per kg

Water

To find out how many kL you have used have a look on the back of your water bills for the past year.

A kilolitre (kL) is 1000 Litres, or 1 cubic meter of water. To pump each kL to your home from the Roe Creek Borefield, it takes about 1.1kWh of power. Pumping each kL generates 0.704 kg CO2.
If you rent and don't know how much water you consume, then enter the following Alice Springs estimates. the average unit uses 93kL per quarter. The average house uses 175kL per quarter.

Transport

How much fuel do you use a week? Include second cars, motor bikes, lawn mowers, etc.

Air travel

How many km in total did your household members fly this year? Don't forget to double the distance for return trips and add multiply by the number of people.

e.g. A family of 3 people flies to a destination 100km away. The total km flown = 100km there + 100km back by 3 people = 600km.
Average flight emissions are 0.2 kg of CO2 per Km per person. Here's an indication of how far you might travel.
Alice Springs to...
...Brisbane = 1965km
...Melbourne= 1860km
...Sydney= 2020km
...Darwin= 1306km
...Perth= 1978km
...Adelaide= 1320km

Melbourne to Sydney= 706km
Melbourne to Brisbane= 1860km
Sydney to Brisbane= 752km
Sydney to Perth= 3280km
Sydney to Cairns= 1960km
Sydney to London= 17100km
Sydney to Los Angeles =12100km
Sydney to Bangkok= 7530km

Offsets

Any carbon offsets purchased such as Green Power.

Some people may have purchased carbon offsets or carbon credits. There is currently no green energy provider in the NT. If you purchase green energy credits the electricity from renewable sources will be generated in another state. This should reduce the amount of carbon emitted on a national level rather than a local level. Carbon offsets can be purchased for almost any activity which emits carbon e.g. flying, driving, sending waste to landfill. The effectiveness of the carbon offsets commercially available remains controversial, as does the ethics of buying the privilege to emit rather than actually reducing emissions.

People

Knowing the number of people helps to increase the accuracy of the results.