What does the US Department of Energy actually do?
1046 sats \ 10 comments \ @kr 26 Feb charts
Anyone else find it strange that energy usage stopped growing in America almost right after the establishment of the Department of Energy?
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2033 sats \ 0 replies \ @026180d3a3 26 Feb
Spend taxes.
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554 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 26 Feb
Response to a crisis in oil prices and production
Never create a new permanent department because of a temporary and manufactured crisis
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554 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 26 Feb
The 1973 oil crisis called attention to the need to consolidate energy policy.[13][14][15] On August 4, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed into law The Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977, (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 95–91, 91 Stat. 565, enacted August 4, 1977), which created the Department of Energy.
President Carter created the Department of Energy with the goal of promoting energy conservation and developing alternative sources of energy. He wanted to not be dependent on foreign oil and reduce the use of fossil fuels.
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1624 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 26 Feb
Remember, there is no such thing as a "low energy, rich country".
Energy = Civilization. Don't let the commies convince you otherwise.
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @JesseJames 26 Feb
THIS ^^^ right there.... Kardashev scale
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509 sats \ 1 reply \ @Atreus 26 Feb
Anyone else find it strange that energy usage stopped growing in America almost right after the establishment of the Department of Energy?
It's about as strange as all the wars we got into after establishing the Defense Department. There was less fighting when it was called the War Department—ironic!
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 26 Feb
i think there was a good naval quote from an old podcast about how the department of defense is really the department of war, the department of health is really the department of sickness, etc
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278 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 26 Feb
Abstract (2014)
Prior to the 1970s energy crises, electricity sales in the United States were growing by more than 5% per year, and as recently as the early 1990s, electricity sales were growing more than 2% per year. In the past few years, growth has essentially stopped: retail electricity sales in 2012 were 1.9% lower than sales in 2007, the peak year. Some observers have attributed this stalled growth to the 2008 economic recession, while others have suggested a variety of other factors. In this paper, we undertake several analyses to consider which factors best explain changes in electricity use in recent years. Our hypothesis is that the recession alone cannot explain the recent stagnation in electricity consumption. We instead hypothesize that electricity savings from energy efficiency programs and from other efficiency efforts such as appliance standards and building codes are having a broad national impact on electricity consumption in the United States, possibly contributing significantly to the recent decline in electricity consumption.
https://www.aceee.org/files/pdf/white-paper/low-electricity-use.pdf
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265 sats \ 0 replies \ @OriginalSize 26 Feb
Number go Sideways
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @UCantDoThatDotRugged 26 Feb
It has a podcast.
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