The graph below gives information from a 2008 report about consumption of energy in the USA since 1980 with projections until 2030

The line graph depicts the amount of energy consumed by fuel types over a period of 50 years, with predictions to 2030.

Overall, it is clear that fossil fuels like petrol and oil have been the dominant source of energy in the US since 1980 and will continue this trend into the future. On the other hand, nuclear, hydropower and solar/wind are consumed less than other types of fuels.

The consumption of petrol and oil stood at the highest number of 35 quadrillion units (q) in the year 1980, followed by a substantial rise to roughly 40q in 2008. This upward trend is set to continue through 2030, with 50q consumed by Americans in the final year. Natural gas and coal came in second and third place in 1980, with around 20q and 16q, respectively. Whilst the former is forecast to increase steadily over the years and overtake natural gas to finish at the second-highest number of 30q in 2030, the latter is likely to reach 25q in 2015 and plateau until the end of the period.

In contrast, nuclear, solar/wind and hydropower accounted for just 4q in 1980. From then, usage of nuclear and solar/wind energy has increased slightly to over 5q but the opposite is true for hydropower. The prediction is that in 2030, nuclear, solar/wind and hydropower consumption will reach the mark of 7q, 5q and 2q in that order, still lower than other types of energy.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, second, so, still, then, third, as to, in contrast, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 7.0 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 1.00243902439 200% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 6.8 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 7.0 5.60731707317 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 33.7804878049 148% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1123.0 965.302439024 116% => OK
No of words: 240.0 196.424390244 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67916666667 4.92477711251 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93597934253 3.73543355544 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5314651829 2.65546596893 95% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 106.607317073 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566666666667 0.547539520022 103% => OK
syllable_count: 320.4 283.868780488 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.4926829268 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4820652683 43.030603864 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.3 112.824112599 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 22.9334400587 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.4 5.23603664747 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 3.70975609756 189% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181041654252 0.215688989381 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0689505034084 0.103423049105 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0357935902049 0.0843802449381 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105857896634 0.15604864568 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0326678199964 0.0819641961636 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.2329268293 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 72.5 61.2550243902 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.3012195122 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.16 11.4140731707 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.06136585366 99% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 40.7170731707 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.4329268293 114% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.9970731707 105% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.0658536585 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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