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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
In 2013, the United States generated about 4,058 billion kilowatthours of electricity. About 67% of the electricity generated was from fossil fuel (coal, natural gas, and petroleum), with 39% attributed from coal.
In 2013, energy sources and percent share of total electricity generation were
Coal 39%
Natural Gas 27%
Nuclear 19%
Hydropower 7%
Other Renewable 6%
Biomass 1.48%
Geothermal 0.41%
Solar 0.23%
Wind 4.13%
Petroleum 1%
Other Gases < 1%
Solar: 0.23% Less than 1/4 of 1 percent.
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Hi AYH,
Hydro and wind are also "Green" energy, but I get your point. I would argue that Solar while slow to be adopted by the US, is thriving in other countries such as Germany where for the first time about 2 weeks ago, Solar provided 51% of the electricity needed for the entire country. And even more interesting, more than 50% of Germany's renewable energy is owned by its citizens & farmers:
http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-...companies.html which is something I did not know before. That's pretty cool!