(task) Did You Know? More Facts from The Great Transition

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> Date: May 27, 2015 at 10:37:01 AM EDT
> Subject: Did You Know? More Facts from The Great Transition
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> Did You Know? More Facts from The Great Transition
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> Earth Policy Release
> May 27, 2015
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> The energy transition is moving fast. Wind and solar are the fastest growing sources of electricity on the planet. No longer marginal, renewables are moving to overtake fossil fuels and nuclear power in certain parts of the world.
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> In an extensive data collection <http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgt_data> of over 130 tables and 150 graphs, the Earth Policy Institute provides information on the key energy and transportation trends changing the world as we know it.
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> Read on for more facts from The Great Transition, now trending #1 in recently released energy books on Amazon.com <http://amazon.com/>.
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> U.S. oil use <http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgt_data#9> fell 8.5% from 2005 to 2014.
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> Of the 523 U.S. coal-fired <http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgt_data#11> power plants, 190 have recently closed or plan to close.
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> Global nuclear power <http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgt_data#7> generation peaked in 2006.
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> Solar power <http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgt_data#3> is the fastest-growing electricity source worldwide.
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> Wind is now China’s <http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgt_data#12> #3 electricity source behind coal and hydropower.
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> Some 40 countries with 860 million people could meet all their electricity needs with geothermal energy <http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgt_data#5>.
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> Hydropower <http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgt_data#6> supplies 16% of the world’s electricity.
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> If the world continues to rely heavily on fossil fuels <http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgt_data#2>, the global average temperature could rise by nearly 11 degrees Fahrenheit (up to 6 degrees Celsius) by the year 2100.
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> Car fleets <http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgt_data#10> are plateauing or have begun to shrink in most major car markets, including the U.S., Europe and Japan.
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> There are nearly 370,000 megawatts of wind power <http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgt_data#4> installed in some 90 countries, producing enough electricity to power 90 million U.S. homes.
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> Supporting data sets for The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy and a PowerPoint summary presentation are available for free downloading at www.earth-policy.org/tgt <http://www.earth-policy.org/tgt>.
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