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Also, I think that Peukert's law shouldn't be referenced in Energy density.Asmendel (talk)

Asmendel (talk) 23:47, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to try to spiffify the Energy density page's main table.

storage type	energy density		recovery efficiency
	by mass	by volume	peak	practical
	MJ/kg	MJ/L	%	%
**mass-energy equivalence	89,876,000,000
**binding energy of helium nucleus	675,000,000	8.57x1024
nuclear fusion of hydrogen (energy from the sun)	300,000,000	423,000,000
nuclear fission (of U-235) (Used in Nuclear Power Plants)	77,000,000	1,500,000,000		30% 50%
**liquid hydrogen	143	10.1
**compressed gaseous hydrogen at 700 bar[1]	143	4.7
**gaseous hydrogen at room temperature	143	0.01079
beryllium (toxic) (burned in air)	67.6	125.1
lithium borohydride (burned in air)	65.2	43.4
boron [2] (burned in air)	58.9	137.8
compressed natural gas at 200 bar	53.6[3]	10
gasoline[4]	46.9	34.6
diesel fuel/residential heating oil[5]	45.8	38.7
polyethylene plastic	46.3[6]	42.6
polypropylene plastic	46.3[7]	41.7
gasohol (10% ethanol 90% gasoline)	43.54	28.06
lithium (burned in air)	43.1	23.0
Jet A aviation fuel[8]	42.8	33
biodiesel oil (vegetable oil)	42.20	30.53
DMF (2,5-dimethylfuran)	42[9]	37.8
crude oil (according to the definition of ton of oil equivalent)	41.87	37[10]
polystyrene plastic	41.4[11]	43.5
body fat metabolism	38	35	22-26%[12]
butanol	36.6	29.2
LPG	34.39	22.16
**specific orbital energy of Low Earth orbit	33 (approx.)
graphite (burned in air)	32.7	72.9
anthracite coal	32.5	72.4		36%
silicon (burned in air)[13]	32.2	75.1
aluminum (burned in air)	31.0	83.8
ethanol	30	24
polyester plastic	26.0[14]	35.6
magnesium (burned in air)	24.7	43.0
bituminous coal [15]	24	20
PET pop bottle plastic	?23.5 impure	?
methanol	19.7	15.6
**hydrazine (toxic) combusted to N2+H2O	19.5	19.3
**liquid ammonia (combusted to N2+H2O)	18.6	11.5
PVC plastic (improper combustion toxic)	18.0[16]	25.2
sugars, carbohydrates & proteins metabolism	17	26.2(dextrose)	22-26% [17]
Cl2O7 + CH4 - computed	17.4
lignite coal	14-19
calcium (burned in air)	15.9	24.6
dry cowdung and cameldung	15.5[18]
wood	6–17[19]	1.8–3.2
**liquid hydrogen + oxygen (as oxidizer) (1:8 (w/w), 14.1:7.0 (v/v))	13.333	5.7
sodium (burned to wet sodium hydroxide)	13.3	12.8
Cl2O7 decomposition - computed	12.2
nitromethane	11.3	12.9
household waste	8-11[20][21]
sodium (burned to dry sodium oxide)	9.1	8.8
iron (burned to iron(III) oxide)	7.4	57.9
Octanitrocubane explosive - computed	7.4
ammonal (Al+NH4NO3 oxidizer)	6.9	12.7
Tetranitromethane + hydrazine explosive - computed	6.6
Hexanitrobenzene explosive - computed	6.5
zinc (burned in air)	5.3	38.0
Teflon plastic (combustion toxic, but flame retardant)	5.1	11.2
iron (burned to iron(II) oxide)	4.9	38.2
**TNT	4.184	6.92
Copper Thermite (Al + CuO as oxidizer)	4.13	20.9
Thermite (powder Al + Fe2O3 as oxidizer)	4.00 [22]	18.4
**compressed air at 300 bar	4	0.14	?
ANFO	3.88
hydrogen peroxide decomposition (as monopropellant)	2.7	3.8
Lithium Thionyl Chloride Battery	2.5
Regenerative Fuel Cell (fuel cell with internal Hydrogen reservoir used much as a battery)	1.62[23]
**hydrazine(toxic) decomposition (as monopropellant)	1.6	1.6
**ammonium nitrate decomposition (as monopropellant)	1.4	2.5
Molecular spring	~1
**sodium-sulfur battery	?	1.23[24]	?	85%[25]
**liquid nitrogen	0.77	0.62
**lithium ion battery	0.54–0.72	0.9–1.9		95%[26]
**lithium sulphur battery	0.54-1.44	?
kinetic energy penetrator	1.9-3.4	30-54
5.56 × 45 mm NATO bullet	0.4-0.8	3.2-6.4
**Zn-air batteries	0.40 to 0.72	?	?	?
**flywheel	0.5	?	?	81-94%[www.ccm.nl]
melting ice	0.335	0.335
**zinc-bromine flow battery	0.27–0.306[27]
**compressed air at 20 bar	0.27		?	64%[28]
**NiMH Battery	0.22[29]	0.36	?	60% [30]
**NiCd Battery	0.14-0.22	?	?	80% [31]
**lead acid battery	0.09–0.11[32]	0.14–0.17	?	75-85%[33]
**commercial lead acid battery pack	0.072-0.079[34]	?	?	?
**vanadium redox battery	.09[35]	.1188	?	70-75%
**vanadium bromide redox battery	.18[36]	.252	?	81%
**ultracapacitor	0.0206 [37]	?	?	?
**ultracapacitor by EEStor (claimed capacity)	1.0 [38]	?	?	?
**supercapacitor	0.01	?	98.5%	90%[39]
**capacitor	0.002 [40]	?	?	?
water at 100 m dam height	0.001	0.001	?	85-90%[41]
**spring power (clock spring), torsion spring	0.0003[42]	0.0006	?
zero point energy	0	0