Actinica » energy http://www.actinica.com Actinica .... at the intersection of optics and electronics Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:21:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 US Energy Use graph http://www.actinica.com/2009/03/us-energy-use-graph/ http://www.actinica.com/2009/03/us-energy-use-graph/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:33:27 +0000 Michael Beach http://www.tinyelves.us/wordpress/?p=163 To comprehend how much energy we use, and what goes where, this is great place to start.

Produced at Lawrence Livermore Labs (https://eed.llnl.gov/) this ‘Sankey diagram’ shows the flow of energy from source to destination, shows what gets used and what gets wasted. We found it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_(energy)

wiki Quad (energy)

click on the chart to see it larger.  It’s in the public domain.

usenflow02-quads

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