[p2p-research] How energy actually gets used

[Ryan]

  Sent to you by Ryan via Google Reader: How energy actually gets used
via Ezra Klein by Ezra Klein on 6/17/10

This graph is the clearest visualization of our energy economy that
I've seen (click for a larger version):



That graph comes by way of Keith Hennessey, who observes that "when
battery technologies improve, the fuel and power worlds will blend in
the U.S., and there will be strong and direct economic relationships
between the production of electric power and the use of oil. Until that
day, from an energy perspective, 'fossil fuels' conflates oil with coal
and natural gas in a way that is at best confusing and at worst
misleading. Substituting biofuels for oil or making vehicles more fuel
efficient has almost no effect on the amount of coal or natural gas we
use." And coal-fired power plants, as those who remember this graph
will know, remain a bigger problem for carbon emissions than most
people realize.

Graph credit: The University of California, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, and the Department of Energy.



Energy - United States - Technology - Department of Energy - Business
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