[Land-speed] Petrol breakdown, not LSR

[joseph lance]

Of the total input energy (coal, nuclear, natural gas, hydro, and others)
used by power plants to generate electricity, oil is only a tiny percentage.

I used to do a lot of work with those numbers.

You can find those numbers by starting with the Department of Energy's web
site but you have to work your way through a lot of stuff to find it--the
numbers are updated annually.

>From memory, approximately: nuke ~ 20%, coal ~ 50%, natural gas is next
biggie, hydro ~ 5%, solar & wind ~ 1%  This is electrical generation only.

Natural gas could be a looming supply and price problem, we are importing 
increasing amounts of the stuff because of environmental restrictions on 
tapping our own off shore. Us people in the north who use it for home 
heating have seen major price increases in the last few years--could get 
chilly for us.

Lance




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Bobbyhotrods at comcast.net>
To: "Landspeed" <Land-speed at Autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:53 PM
Subject: [Land-speed] Petrol breakdown, not LSR


>I got to thinking that Dave might be right, he usually is, dammit, so I
>nosed around the web and found 47% of crude becomes gasoline, 23% becomes
>home heating oil/ diesel, 10% jet fuel, 4% propane, 18% other products like
>chemicals and plastics.
> Nearly 60% of what we use is imported.
> I couldn't find the ratio of fuels used by power plants. I'm clueless as
> to how much oil is used by them, maybe not alot compared to coal, gas,
> nukes and hydro.
> Hard to fold in natural gas usage. I'm not sure there's a looming problem
> there anyway. BJ
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