Energy from different fuels

OK, so we have the basic investigation, comparing the energy output from three
different fuels. The results you have are simply the increase in temperature of a volume
of water, after some minutes of heating with each fuel.

The challenge now is to see:

1. Whether the results reflect reality:

a. How do these three fuels rate in terms of efficiency?
b. What are some actual figures for energy released from the combustion of
each of the three fuels?
2. Whether wasted energy can be estimated. Clearly a most significant quantity of
the energy released from the combustion of each fuel did NOT transfer into
raising the temperature of the water. Can we put some figures to that?

REALITY
1. It should not be too difficult to research some combustion data for the three fuels
and compare them to the results. Which of the three fuels should have been the
most efficient? Which should have been the least efficient? Does the researched
data match the lab results?

ENERGY LOSS
1. Research results for combustion energy generated from the three fuels in proper
use conditions – ie in a car or an aeroplane or a lighter
2. Find out what the energy transfer was to the water. For this you will need to find
a way to turn the temperature increase of the water into a specific figure of
calories or joules. You have the volume of water and you have the temperature
increase. (1 calories should heat 1 gm (ml) of water by 1°c.)
3. Work out the percentage (in)efficiency.