{"id":295,"date":"2009-12-08T01:05:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2010-01-04T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T22:06:28","slug":"us-energy-use-drops-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"US Energy Use Drops In 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From SCIENCE DAILY, December 7, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/energyuse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"energy use\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/energyuse_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"energy use\" width=\"208\" height=\"155\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Americans used more solar, nuclear, biomass and wind energy in 2008 than they did in 2007, according to the most recent energy flow charts released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llnl.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<\/a>. The nation used less coal and petroleum during the same time frame and only slightly increased its natural gas consumption. Geothermal energy use remained the same.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com\/sanfrancisco\/stories\/2009\/07\/27\/daily11.html\" target=\"_blank\">energy use in 2008<\/a> equaled 99.2 quadrillion BTUs (&#8220;quads&#8221;), down from 101.5 quadrillion BTUs in 2007. (A BTU or British Thermal Unit is a unit of measurement for energy, and is equivalent to about 1.055 kilojoules). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/07\/090720134556.htm\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of story]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More alternative energy sources and less coal and petroleum equals a drop in US energy use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[170,71,164,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}