Energy - põhjalik referaat energiast
towns. Offices use a large share of energy, too. Education buildings, like your school, use
13 percent of all total energy, which is even more than all hospitals and other medical
buildings combined! Lodging buildings (like hotels or dormitories) use 8 percent of all
energy. Warehouses and food service (like restaurants) each use 7 percent. Public assembly
buildings, which can be anything from libraries to sports arenas, use 6 percent; food sales
buildings (like grocery stores and conveniencestores) use 4 percent. All other types of
buildings, like places of worship, fire stations, police stations, and laboratories, account for
the remaining 10 percent of commercial building energy.
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Picture 2.7 Energy use by type of building
2.5 Industrial and Manufacturing Energy Use
The United States is highly industrialized. Industry accounts for about one-third of the
energy used in the country.