Surging Renewable Sector

With all them billions sitting in hoarded vaults somewhere and Not being used as they are supposed to be, the 'surge' should have been double or triple by now!!

Pulls Even With Nuclear Power in U.S.

April 6, 2011 - Declining nuclear power and a strengthening renewable fuels sector have left the two energy sources neck-and-neck for their share of U.S. energy production, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The percent of domestic energy production obtained from renewable fuels -- biomass, geothermal, solar, wind and water -- rose to 10.9 percent last year, up from 10.6 percent in 2009. Meanwhile nuclear energy dipped from 11.5 percent in 2009 to 11.3 percent in 2010.

Fossil fuels accounted for 77.8 percent of domestic energy production, or 58.3 quadrillion BTUs of the nearly 75 quadrillion BTUs produced in the United States last year.

A typical U.S. household uses 37 million BTUs worth of electricity in a year, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

The data were compiled before the 9.0 temblor and subsequent tsunami devastated Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant and cast doubts on nuclear power worldwide. {continued}