Rejected Energy: What the Livermore Chart Actually Shows
Lawrence Livermore publishes a Sankey diagram every year showing where American energy goes. In 2024, 62.27 of 94.61 quads did no useful work at all. What rejected energy means and what a quad is, why the chart’s own method makes renewables shrink the waste rather than add to it, why transport alone is more than a third of the national total, and the three things that would actually fix it.