From Craig et al., Can History teach us? A retrospective examination of long-term energy forecasts for the United States. Annu. Rev. Energy and Environment 27, 83(2002)
Stewart Brand sent in a piece by the Klimazweibel blog covered by Seekerblog. It shows where the actual US energy consumption came in by 02000 vs the predictions from 01975. It is interesting to see that we came in well below the lowest (read: most optimistic) prediction. While the US still uses an amount of energy that would be unsustainable if adopted worldwide, it does look like all those energy efficiency programs that we started back in the seventies had a real impact…
