How much energy does it take to run a country? And right now how much of that energy is sustainable? These are pretty critical questions in the long-term functioning of a modern society, and the answers are getting more positive, slowly.

In the case of the USA, that's a relatively easy question to answer, as the Energy Information Administration, a congressional statistics body, pulls the information together on a regular basis and supplies it to the public in a handy series of documents.

Renewable Energy Consumption In The US

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