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There’s really no excuse for that — to lose 54% of the energy we generate across the nation due to inefficiency and pure wastefulness. And there’s a reason that energy efficiency aficionados are constantly making calls to pick the plentiful ‘low-hanging fruit’. They’re right, of course. At a moment in time when we’re fully aware of the consequences of burning coal for power, we still can’t even be bothered to work to capture and utilize all of the energy it creates?
via Chart of US Energy Use Reveals Herculean Effort Needed to Ditch Oil, Coal : TreeHugger.
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