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All uses of energy in the United States for 2015 and 2021

John Shanahan
USA
2016
Source of graphs - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Wind and solar are very small contributors to generation for electricity. It is only because they are very small parts that they can be tolerated on the modern electric grid at all. Wind and solar are a negligible contribution to reducing coal, oil, and natural gas and thus supposedly stopping man-made global warming.