Energy Sources and Uses in 2009
Mar.30, 2011 in
Energy
he Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has an awesome picture of how we produced and used energy in 2009. The link takes you to a pdf of the graph. I think they did an excellent job of placing a lot of information into an easy to read picture. The only problem is that I have no idea what units they are using. It says ~94.6 Quads but I have no idea what that means. Maybe someone else knows?
Via (Geology.com)
March 30th, 2011 at 11:41 am
It’s BTUs (in quadrillions). Kind of dumb it doesn’t spell that out.
March 30th, 2011 at 11:56 am
Awesome, thanks. I agree that it is dumb. Anyone working in a laboratory should know to include units or it is meaningless. Quads could refer to many different things. It could refer to the quad muscle, and they were relating the energy output to how much energy a quad muscle would use while active for one hour. FACT. It takes approximately 47.3 people using their quad muscles for one hour to equal all the energy produced in the US in 2009. FACT.