Green Energy - Vital To Our Future

Why is Green Energy Vital to Our Future?

• The USA consumes about 1.053 billion tons of coal each year, using 90% of it for generation of electricity.

• More than 12,000 pounds of coal burned per home per year.

• America mines enough coal to fill a train extending from the west coast to the east coast and back, and then around the world 3 times every year.

• America's largest single source of global warming emissions is coal-fired power plants.

• The larget source of mercury pollution today is coal-fired power plants.

• More than 45 states now post statewide mercury advisories warning that fish are unsafe to eat.

Electricity Generation Consumes 500,000 Barrels of oil a day.

• The proposed solution for disposal of nuclear waste in the U.S. is to move it to Nevada and bury all the waste in the Yucca Mountains. The cost of the project is going to cost more than 60 billion dollars.

• In 2004 Natural Gas produces about 5,300 Metric Tons of Carbon Monoxide emissions.

• Taxas ranks #1 for Carbon Monoxide Emissions from Electricity Generation.