Auto Analysis by Jim Henry & Jim Motavalli
1/22/2010 - BNET
Every year, the U.S. uses 100 quadrillion BTUs of energy, and despite inroads by renewables like wind and solar, 83 quadrillion BTUs still comes from fossil fuels. According to Allen Baker, editor of a new publication called Greening of Oil, “If we were able to increase the thermal efficiency of the whole oil parade by just 10 percent, it would have the same environmental effect as doubling the amount of renewable energy we use.”
That simple equation—anathema to global warming activists and renewable experts who’d like to see oil (and coal) production simply disappear—is behind the launch of the new online magazine, which comes from the publishers of the weekly Petroleum News. It might be a welcome addition, now that the Wall Street Journal has shut down its useful Environmental Capital blog.
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