Posted AT 6:00 AM EST on 23/07/08
The path to efficiency – the U.S. is already on it
‘Imagine,” says Tufts University energy economist Gilbert E. Metcalf, “that the United States had the same energy intensity in 2003 that it had in 1970.” Imagine, in other words, that the U.S. skipped an entire generation of technological advance in its use of oil, gas, coal and electricity.
Using 1970 technologies, Prof. Metcalf says, the United States would have consumed 186.8 quadrillion British thermal units of energy in 2003.
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