Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World by Richard Heinberg

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Every year, each U.S. citizen uses, on average:
8,000 pounds of oil
5,150 pounds of coal
4,700 pounds of natural gas
1/10th pound of uranium
If one “person-power” is 0.25 hp or 635 Btu/hr, this is the equivalent of 300 persons working around the clock for each of us.