Conservation effectively added more "new" energy to the total U.S. supply—between 1970 and 1980—than did oil, coal, nuclear power, hydropower, and natural gas combined . . . according to researchers at Oak Ridge, Tennessee's Institute for Energy Analysis. More...
On the surface impresses me as a dubious claim, or at least a dubious interpretation. Output, as measured in GDP, per energy input has increased. That is how such data should be interpreted. We produce more with the same energy input.
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