These are just a few of the ambitious goals the city has set to save energy, waste less and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The good news is that across the country, between and , energy used for space and water heating declined. However, even though appliances have become more efficient, the energy consumed by appliances and electronics is on the rise as Americans bring more and more devices into their lives.
Though electronic devices are increasingly efficient, we use more of them. Photo: David Sim. Michael Waite, a Ph. Now the trend is towards energy being used more for things other than thermal comfort. The bottom line is that our energy consumption would not be as much of a critical issue if we could stop producing most of our energy by burning fossil fuels, which exacerbate global warming.
Along with becoming more energy efficient, we need to move quickly toward getting more of our energy from clean renewable resources. Solar panels on Roosevelt Island. Photo: Kristin Resurreccion. New York City has plenty of potential for solar and wind. Instead of building one MW natural gas-fired power plant which will last generations, Waite suggests we instead build 5, kW generators to distribute throughout the city. On Sept. Excellent article!
You can bet your bottom dollar conventional energy companies are fighting tooth and nail to keep energy consumption high. Question I did the numbers about 6 years ago with 0r data on how many square miles of solar panels it would take to provide New York New York for just one day. With current data how much would it be today. My estimates then were well over sq miles of just panels.
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A city of , people contains about 50, households, and knowing that the average U. In , the average annual electricity consumption for a U. The residential sector, the electric power sector, and the commercial sector consume almost all the natural gas used in New York. In , the residential sector, where three out of every five households heat with natural gas, accounted for almost two-fifths of the natural gas delivered to New York consumers.
How much does a city use? Some scale — I mean, 7 gigawatts sounds like it could be a lot.
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