Energy stats galore! Fascinating data.
Originally shared by Craig Froehle
EVs are about to become even more important as transportation's carbon contribution has outstripped electrical waste as the US's largest component of wasted energy.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/4/13/15268604/american-energy-one-diagram
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It puts back solar in perspective.
ReplyDeleteNow, imagine pushing US citizen to consume as europeans, smaller car, better isolated houses, 240 v instead of 110 etc.
If you could save only 5% of the total, this will be more than 5 times the production of solar.
It's interesting to compare this to the similar graph for Germany, and indeed to compare Germany's numbers to the rhetoric that many espouse about Germany's energy use.
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