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Visualizing America’s Energy Use, in One Giant Chart
Have you ever wondered where the country’s energy comes from, and how exactly it gets used?
Well now, thanks to Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins, we have the answer as The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) crunches the numbers every year, outputting an incredible flow diagram that covers the broad spectrum of U.S. energy use.
The 2019 version of this comprehensive diagram gives us an in-depth picture of the U.S. energy ecosystem, showing not only where energy originates by fuel source (i.e. wind, oil, natural gas, etc.) but also how it’s ultimately consumed by sector.
In Perspective: 2019 Energy Use
Below, we’ll use the unit of quads, with each quad worth 1 quadrillion BTUs, to compare data for the last five years of energy use in the United States. Each quad has roughly the same amount of energy as contained in 185 million barrels of crude oil.
Interestingly, overall energy use in the U.S. actually decreased to 100.2 quads in 2019, similar to a decrease last seen in 2015.
It’s also worth noting that the percentage of fossil fuels used in the 2019 energy mix decreased by 0.2% from last year to make up 80.0% of the total. This effectively negates the small rise of fossil fuel usage that occurred in 2018.
Energy Use by Source
Which sources of energy are seeing more use, as a percentage of the total energy mix?
Since 2015, natural gas has grown from 29% to 32% of the U.S. energy mix — while coal’s role in the mix has dropped by 4.7%.
In these terms, it can be hard to see growth in renewables, but looking at the data in more absolute terms can tell a different story. For example, in 2015 solar added 0.532 quads of energy to the mix, while in 2019 it accounted for 1.04 quads — a 95% increase.
Energy Consumption
Finally, let’s take a look at where energy goes by end consumption, and whether or not this is evolving over time.
Residential, commercial, and industrial sectors are all increasing their use of energy, while the transportation sector is seeing a drop in energy use — likely thanks to more fuel efficient cars, EVs, public transport, and other factors.
The COVID-19 Effect on Energy Use
The energy mix is incredibly difficult to change overnight, so over the years these flow diagrams created by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have not changed much.
One exception to this will be in 2020, which has seen an unprecedented shutdown of the global economy. As a result, imagining the next iteration of this energy flow diagram is basically anybody’s guess.
We can likely all agree that it’ll include increased levels of energy consumption in households and shortfalls everywhere else, especially in the transportation sector. However, the total amount of energy used — and where it comes from — might be a significant deviation from past years.
11 Comments on "Visualizing America’s Energy Use, in One Giant Chart"
Cloggie on Fri, 8th May 2020 9:41 am
“Annual Dutch National Energy Bill”
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2020/05/08/annual-dutch-national-energy-bill/
20B euro or 2% GDP.
SocialRevolutionComing on Fri, 8th May 2020 10:24 am
They are going to try to use COVID hoax to keep people pacify and avoid social revolution. They are going to double down on fear tactics and manipulation. Russia is already doing that.
Moscow extends lockdown until May 31 as COVID-19 infections soar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e18FVq2-QF0
whoa supremacist muzzies jerk i know some wrong when a pretty little white girl ran to a black man arms dead giveaway deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed giveaway on Fri, 8th May 2020 10:35 am
this is my master treaties. i don’t waste time on this forum. it’s lame. this treaties is about love for supremacist muzzies
muzzie bribe went with isis to make babies and now want to go back. what the world going to. this is ok but supertard big muzzie beard SAWS swt pbuh is banned from UK and harrassed by AA.
muzzie curse kufar in vice documentary about ramadan but subtitle is excluded for the love of supremacist muzzie. this happens in deerfield michigan. muzzie said it’s peaceful but at the end acted as if typical soft and cudly muzzies do. very ironic
the knights of columbus were real head breakers true guineas 70000 years after an irishman could not get a job we got the presidency may he rest in peace. the kennedies were muzie lovers so (((supremetard))) didnt’ protect them and they die slowly.
but now the irishman is back and whitey supertard president michael flynn (the honest one) is going to love muzzies and amputate them all. love can be in many forms and bringing muzzies closer to muhamad the pedifler to get virgins and boys is a form of ultimate love.
one has to wonder why little tiny small big brother joe never mentioned whitey supertard president michael flynn and why the investigation wasn’t about muzzies but that’s the goal, destroy muzzie lovers by going after them in some other ways – like love for putin
cui bono? one wonder the extend of muzzie infiltration and why did little small tiny big brother joe “reverted” to muzzie like john brennen
now it is ramadan and very peaceful. so far 72 kabooms and 262 went to see muhadmad the pedifler. after 15 days, 15 more to go.
muzzies get extra credits during this time so when they go for your neck, muzzie only being friendly. this actual advice is not mine though
supertard big muzzie beard SAWS pbuh swt reported muzzies in ger comprise of 40% of jizya payment to the tune of 4 billion euros per month. with that money they could go REAL GREEN or FAKE GREEN, it doesn’t matter that would’d been prosperious without the rapey rapey and stabby muzzies. The scale of jizya is incredible. it’s all out in the open if you just listen to the UK muzzie andy choudary.
muzzie sabotage airliner and got loved 1000x in the form of reporting of “union dispute”. supertard big muzzie beard SAWS pbuh swtreported it’s actually jihad.
Then in astralia muzzie with big grin and smug looking face with a hat and meat grinder practically begged to be amputated and put on muzzie hamster wheel. cops love him 100000x more and are puzzled why he did this. i’m scratching my head too which has thinning hair
Muzzie in NZ allah acbar and went after cop with axe. Cops loved muzzie 10000x love conquer all. No tweet AOC SAWS pbuh swt , not siri Lanka, not when muzzie shot 6 cops on philadelphia. 25 billion tweet on Christchurch though
then there we deceptions of deep green, real green, deep deep green, fake fake green, and all the permutations of green. when AOC SAWS pbuh swt – (ZOMG i’m amazed at the technology in a sink food grinder) failed, the greta SAWS pbuh swt deception kicked in. I belived everything even the fantastic flying goat story.
for many years, centuries, million, quadrillion of years since (((supremetard))) SAWS pbuh swt created heaven and earth and before supertards SAWS pbuh swt big muzzie beard and glenn roberts put up web sites, i warned tards and supertards about muzzies.
i made no progress sort of like banging head against concrete, concrete wins everytime
but then i “reverted” to a supremacist muzzie jerk and I’m the best of humanity allah has created. i wear a muzzie dress and i pee sitting down holding up the bathroom line. this made supertard SAWS pbuh swt have bladder infection but the love for muzzies only intensified.
and now i have superpower, big goat SAWS pbuh swt is feeling intense heat. all stops are pulled it seems – even Robert Inget the controlled libtard opposition is deployed to censor me. but uppertard SAWS pbuh swt is not going to destroy free speech for someones love of muzzie. supertard SIS SAWS pbuh swt dropped the appeal and that’s final. it’s now as good as case law. supertard SIS SAWS pbuh is back being occupied with his bunker and learjet and auto keltecs and he said absolutely do not bother him. so it’s set in stone that uppertard SAWS swt pbuh is not going to modify this forum
joe on Fri, 8th May 2020 10:36 am
its so much worse than a conspiracy. our leaders and their advisors have been exposed as feckless social media junkies who believed fake news pouring out of hong kong about a new virus which was killing millions in china and that china was desperate trying to cover it up. tech companies are carpet bagging america trying to sell bullshit tracer apps that wont save a single vulerable elderly or minority group but will make Big tech trillions.
we believed a so called expert from imperial collage london and the WHO who (without any evidence) claimed millions in UK and US could die. Now evidence is mounting that the current common cold virus has been circulating freely for 6months before anyone even noticed (tough shit china, you smelt it you dealt it).
joe on Fri, 8th May 2020 10:44 am
with an estimated cfr of 0.37%, conservative they actually think its lower (peer reviwed study from Bonn University Germany), coronavirus is about as dangerous to the population as the common cold. the studied event was a superspreading event, an indoor fair where the culture was to get drunk, sing dance and kiss on the mouth. so with massive viral load (doctors/nurses get exposed to far higher loads) of a novel virus you may have the same chance of dying as the flu. this is the 1st wave?
Trump was right, its just a cold, it will vanish soon. whats not gonna vanish is bill gates and the power grab from the left.
speaking of which on Fri, 8th May 2020 10:53 am
there we go
the suppressor of news about whitey supertard president – the irishman – michael flynn
whoa supremacist muzzies jerk i know some wrong when a pretty little white girl ran to a black man arms dead giveaway deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed giveaway on Fri, 8th May 2020 11:01 am
this is my master treaties. i don’t waste time on this forum. it’s lame. this treaties is about love for supremacist muzzies
muzzie bribe went with isis to make babies and now want to go back. what the world going to. this is ok but supertard big muzzie beard SAWS swt pbuh is banned from UK and harrassed by AA.
muzzie curse kufar in vice documentary about ramadan but subtitle is excluded for the love of supremacist muzzie. this happens in deerfield michigan. muzzie said it’s peaceful but at the end acted as if typical soft and cudly muzzies do. very ironic
the knights of columbus were real head breakers true guineas 70000 years after an irishman could not get a job we got the presidency may he rest in peace. the kennedies were muzie lovers so (((supremetard))) didnt’ protect them and they die slowly.
but now the irishman is back and whitey supertard president michael flynn (the honest one) is going to love muzzies and amputate them all. love can be in many forms and bringing muzzies closer to muhamad the pedifler to get virgins and boys is a form of ultimate love.
one has to wonder why little tiny small big brother joe never mentioned whitey supertard president michael flynn and why the investigation wasn’t about muzzies but that’s the goal, destroy muzzie lovers by going after them in some other ways – like love for putin
cui bono? one wonder the extend of muzzie infiltration and why did little small tiny big brother joe “reverted” to muzzie like john brennen
now it is ramadan and very peaceful. so far 72 kabooms and 262 went to see muhadmad the pedifler. after 15 days, 15 more to go.
muzzies get extra credits during this time so when they go for your neck, muzzie only being friendly. this actual advice is not mine though
and now the muzzielove virus with corona. corona is a (((supremetard))) beer. pay close attention, there’s a cross in the logo. so why muzzies destroy it? we need to go back to whitey supertard scientfic supremacist “thunderf00t” who should be amputated for muzzie lovin and spreading scientific supremacism. when this whitey supertard imposed self quarantine i said it smellz. that was many moons ago and i was first as usual to smell BS 20000 light years away.
then we have whitey supertard “royal” instituiotn who ran model predicting muzzielove virus. then admited it wrong and went to boink married gf and lost job.
ask yourslef if someone speak exclusively high british english, chances are they love muzzies? of course they love muzies and that’s why i’m pushing low english. it’s more trustworthy. muzzies benefits in all this.
churches closed but muzzie mosque open. and all the rapes in UK was “by all ethics” no mention of muzzies which brexit about to amputate.
supertard big muzzie beard SAWS pbuh swt reported muzzies in ger comprise of 40% of jizya payment to the tune of 4 billion euros per month. with that money they could go REAL GREEN or FAKE GREEN, it doesn’t matter that would’d been prosperious without the rapey rapey and stabby muzzies. The scale of jizya is incredible. it’s all out in the open if you just listen to the UK muzzie andy choudary.
muzzie sabotage airliner and got loved 1000x in the form of reporting of “union dispute”. supertard big muzzie beard SAWS pbuh swtreported it’s actually jihad.
Then in astralia muzzie with big grin and smug looking face with a hat and meat grinder practically begged to be amputated and put on muzzie hamster wheel. cops love him 100000x more and are puzzled why he did this. i’m scratching my head too which has thinning hair
Muzzie in NZ allah acbar and went after cop with axe. Cops loved muzzie 10000x love conquer all. No tweet AOC SAWS pbuh swt , not siri Lanka, not when muzzie shot 6 cops on philadelphia. 25 billion tweet on Christchurch though
then there we deceptions of deep green, real green, deep deep green, fake fake green, and all the permutations of green. when AOC SAWS pbuh swt – (ZOMG i’m amazed at the technology in a sink food grinder) failed, the greta SAWS pbuh swt deception kicked in. I belived everything even the fantastic flying goat story.
for many years, centuries, million, quadrillion of years since (((supremetard))) SAWS pbuh swt created heaven and earth and before supertards SAWS pbuh swt big muzzie beard and glenn roberts put up web sites, i warned tards and supertards about muzzies.
i made no progress sort of like banging head against concrete, concrete wins everytime
but then i “reverted” to a supremacist muzzie jerk and I’m the best of humanity allah has created. i wear a muzzie dress and i pee sitting down holding up the bathroom line. this made supertard SAWS pbuh swt have bladder infection but the love for muzzies only intensified.
and now i have superpower, big goat SAWS pbuh swt is feeling intense heat. all stops are pulled it seems – even Robert Inget the controlled libtard opposition is deployed to censor me. but uppertard SAWS pbuh swt is not going to destroy free speech for someones love of muzzie. supertard SIS SAWS pbuh swt dropped the appeal and that’s final. it’s now as good as case law. supertard SIS SAWS pbuh is back being occupied with his bunker and learjet and auto keltecs and he said absolutely do not bother him. so it’s set in stone that uppertard SAWS swt pbuh is not going to modify this forum
c8 on Fri, 8th May 2020 12:50 pm
That’s a really cool chart. What is “rejected energy”? Is it heat? waste? And why is it so large?
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nocar on Sat, 9th May 2020 5:20 am
Yes, they should have explained “rejected energy”. My guess it is energy “waste”. Like an ICE only uses 30% of the enery in gasoline to move the car. The rest goes off as heat.
JuanP is stupid on Sat, 9th May 2020 6:32 am
socks are out
nocar on Sat, 9th May 2020 5:20 am
Yes, they should have explained “rejected energy”. My guess it is energy “waste”. Like an ICE only uses 30% of the enery in gasoline to move the car. The rest goes off as heat.