An average energy use day

Activity	TVH
Five hours of watching TV /day	5 TVH
3000 calories of eating /day	36 TVH
2 Grande Starbucks Coffee /day	1 TVH
4 cans of coke /day	7 TVH
Throwing out the 4 empty coke cans /day	12 TVH
Newspaper not recycled /day	10 TVH
Electricity for home /day	240 TVH
Gas for home /day	100 TVH
2 Gallons gasoline /day	640 TVH
Barbeque Briquettes and Lighter Fluid /day	30 TVH
Fire in Fireplace /day	200 TVH
Mowing lawn with gas mower /day	64 TVH
Not recycling plastics, glass, metals, paper /day	200 TVH
Total TVHs used per day living the American way	1,545 TVH

These figures are compiled for the average person. How do you compare? How much fuel do you put in your car each week? Is it greater or less than 2 gallons a day? Do you recycle newspaper/food containers?

Another way of looking at the situation, is to consider the whole US economy not just a one person's consumption in house. These are the data for the USA:

Primary Energy Source	TVH/person/day
Crude oil (all uses)	1,143.0
Natural gas (all uses)	648.7
Coal (all uses)	713.7
Nuclear electric power	73.7
Hydroelectric power	24.5
Other renewable electric power	9.2
Wood and biomass burned	100.6
Total TVH/person/day	2,713.5

Quads per year (10 to the 15 BTUS) 98
Population of USA 290 million

What does all of this mean? It means the average American as part of living and producing the American Dream uses 2,713.5 TVH each day or they could watch 113 24" tube TVs constantly 24 hours a day, 365 days per year with all the energy we consume.

Country	TVH / person / day	# of 24" TVs running all day /person
USA	2713.5	113.1
Whole world	505.5	21.1
India	99.0	4.12

As there are 6.7 billion people on earth and as we have 21.1 TVs going all the time per person, the energy used on earth could run 141.4 billion TVs, of which 32.8 billion are running in the USA