Engineering360: "See How U.S. Energy Consumption Has Changed Since 1776"

Is the past prologue? I have to say I don't think so in this case. There will be advances, and have been in energy utilization that will change this chart in more ways than one.

I envision biomass (especially from algae culture) to rise once again to a higher level, but not perhaps as pervasive, or surpassing natural gas.

We will eventually get the energy cycle down to a point where renewables take over, and various means of energy storage provide load leveling needed.

Transportation needs will be met in the short term by liquid transportable hydrocarbons, but who knows when or it we could do just as well using silanes, for example. Primed to enter the world stage is the IFbattery, and this will beat Li+ ion out of the market.

I think the curves would be much more informative if they were graphed as energy consumption per capita instead of total energy consumption. Then we could really see the differences.

--JMM

True that.

Alternative is to graph the consumption on a log scale, which would help compress the curve into a more easily read form. How about it OP?

--JMM

we should be so lucky as to hear back from OP.