Statistics
Electricity:
- production 4,126 TWh in 2010
- consumption 3,877 TWh in 2010
Electricity - production by source:
- petroleum: 0.9%
- natural gas: 24%
- coal: 45%
- renewable: 10.4%
- nuclear: 20% (2010)
Oil:
- production: 9.688-million-barrel-per-day (1,540,300 m3/d) (2010 est.)
- consumption: 19.15-million-barrel-per-day (3,045,000 m3/d) (2010 est.)
Heat Engines are only 20% efficient at converting raw energy (oil) into work. Electric transmission (production to consumer) loses over 23% of the energy due to generation, transmission, and distribution
Read more about this topic: Energy Policy Of The United States
Famous quotes containing the word statistics:
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about “character issues.” Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.”
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“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)