The diagram shows the consumption of renewable energy in the USA from 1949 to 2008.
The line graph highlights data about how much renewable energy was consumed in the USA, over a 59-year period from 1949 to 2008.
Overall
, it is clearly seen that all kinds of renewable energy witnessed a significant increase.
Looking into detail, as regards overall
and hydroelectric power consumption, they went in a similar direction until 2000. The former started at 3.6 quadrillion
Btu
which doubled the latter at the beginning of the period. Regarding the former and latter, they rose substantially from 2.4 to 7 and 1.8 to 2 quadrillion
Btu
respectively, despite some fluctuations over the period in question. As for wood, it remained relatively constant until 1975, accounting for 1.6 quadrillion
Btu
, after which it experienced negligible growth until 1989, reaching its peak (2.5 quadrillion
Btu
).
If we look at biofuels and wind, there was little difference between the number of biofuels and wind, as the former made up 1.4 quadrillion
Btu
, while
the latter was lower by a margin of 0.3 quadrillion
Btu
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