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That may be true over some timeframes of comparison, but it doesn't explain 2007 to now, when the Vox chart shows electricity demand plateauing. Here is Lawren

That may be true over some timeframes of comparison, but it doesn't explain 2007 to now, when the Vox chart shows electricity demand plateauing. Here is Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's energy flow chart for the United States in 2007: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/energy/energy_archive/energy_flow_2007/LLNL_US_EFC_20071.png https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/energy/energy_archive/en... And here's the most recent one, from 2016: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/assets/images/energy/us/Energy_US_2016.png https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/assets/images/energy/us/... Industrial sector primary energy demand barely declined, from 24.84 quads in 2007 to 24.5 in 2016. That's less than the decline from the residential sector, 11.43 to 11.00.

fludlight 9y ago
What is "rejected energy"?
- philipkglass 9y ago
  It's energy that is dissipated without providing energy services. For example, electrical transmission line losses and the less-than-100% efficiency of heat engine electrical generators both contribute to rejected energy. Those numbers can't be directly compared between the 2007 and 2016 charts. LLNL changed methodology for reporting them in recent years. The input primary energy numbers can be compared across the whole time frame, though.
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antr 9y ago
"U.S. Electricity Sales", as shown in the graph, is net of any restrictions, generation efficiency, transmission losses, etc.