Raw Food

Farm products before they are packaged and sold. A small fraction of this goes straight to metabolism, and another fraction goes to material disposal.

SOURCES

Transformation Exergy Flux (J/s) Carbon Flux (g/s) Citations
Agriculture 1.106e+12 2.764e+07 The Biomass Metabolism of the Food System: A Model-Based Survey of the Global and Regional Turnover of Food Biomass
TOTAL 1.106e+12 2.764e+07

SINKS

Transformation Exergy Flux (J/s) Carbon Flux (g/s)
Waste Disposal 5.250e+10 1.312e+06
Metabolism 1.071e+11 2.678e+06
Food Processing 9.460e+11 2.365e+07
TOTAL 1.106e+12 2.764e+07