Evaluating the energy consumed for water use in the United States
By K. Sanders, Michael E. Webber. 2012
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This letter consists of a first-order analysis of the primary energy embedded in water in the United States. Using a combination of top-down sectoral assessments of energy use together with a bottom-up allocation of energy-for-water on a component-wise and service-specific level, our analysis concludes that energy use in the residential, commercial, industrial and power sectors for direct water and steam services was approximately 12.3 ± 0.3 quadrillion BTUs or 12.6% of the 2010 annual primary energy consumption in the United States. Additional energy was used to generate steam for indirect process heating, space heating and electricity generation.
Subfields: Ocean Engineering, Pollution, Water Science and Technology
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In Water Science and Technology
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- Water-energy-food nexus: Concepts, questions and methodologies (2018, background): “steam-driven power 688 generation), the proportion increased to 47% (Sanders and Webber, 2012).”