Energy Use in the US

· Note that nuclear power has been fairly level for many years, as has coal power with large fluctuations.

· Note that renewable power has climbed steadily since 2001.

· Note that natural-gas power has climbed rapidly since 2005 due to the fact that the lack of environmental controls has made it easy to extract from shale. My web page on shale gas shows that the extraction is so fast that it will peak in about a decade and then decline rapidly.

· Of course, crude-oil power has declined steadily since 1985, mainly because extraction of crude oil peaked for the U.S. about a decade before then.

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