Tuesday, September 6, 2011

US Stack Analysis - Car Use

The daily energy use per day per person due to cars was found to be close to 50 kW-h per day.  This was done by using the average mpg of an average car and using statistics from BTS.org for the daily distance an average American drives.  Numbers can be seen in the following figure.
  

The same type of calculation was performed for flying below:
Sources:
BTS.gov
Wikipedia.org

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