Residential Water Use Amounts to Less Than 10% of Total Freshwater Consumption in the United States
October 5, 2012, 17:44
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via (pdf) : http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/3/034034/pdf/1748-9326_7_3_034034.pdf
Just an aside in a very interesting paper, “Evaluating the Energy Consumed for Water Use in the United States.”
“Self-Supplied” means they sucked it right out of a river, lake or aquifer.
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Timmy Duggan’s Nationals Power
June 3, 2012, 22:47
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Lotta Joules for a Timmy.
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Via Velonews:
Total world energy consumption 1925-1965
January 21, 2012, 21:52
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…by fuel type.
Via HYDE: http://themasites.pbl.nl/en/themasites/hyde/consumptiondata/perfueltype/index.html
Claimed source is Darmstadter, 1971.
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