Friday, April 17, 2009

Background

Hi -
I am doing a project on ways to replace mountaintop mined coal energy for another class and came across some stuff that we should probably include somewhere as background information.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/trends/rentrends.html

I think we should say something like:

Renewable energy accounts for 7 percent of the energy consumption in the U.S. according to official energy statistics from the U.S. government.

This chart shows the main sources America uses to generate renewable energy:
(I just made this chart in excel based on the one from EIS and saved it in photoshop)


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