Considering the contents of that beastie, I suspect the Possum Queen’s efforts must necessarily be enjoyed from a distance of at least 50 yards, and she can run very fast. 😄.

Your New Year celebration also explains the previously unaccounted for CO2 bloom measured by satellites passing over the Atlanta area at that time of year. I trust everyone car pools to the event in an effort to offset subsequent Climate Change emissions. 😄

All seriousness aside, here’s an interesting sidebar to the 3412 btu/kWh number. This table shows how many btu were needed at the power plant to generate that kWh. Note that coal comes in around 10,400 btu while natural gas logs in close to 8,000 btu/kWh.

http://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_01.html

Hmmm, there’s a message there somewhere.