US Energy Usage Trends

07Apr07

In 22 years, the US GDP has gone from about 20,000 to 35,000 per capita while energy use per capita has remained almost the same. Apparently it is possible for a country to increase the GDP without increasing energy use. It’s also interesting that the US and the UK are the only two countries who are using energy so efficiently.

Found in a lecture from UC Berkeley’s Physics for Future Presidents.

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