Sentences with phrase «capita energy»

The global poor contribute the least to AGW due to their low per capita energy use, and due to their thinner margins for agriculture, water, and the income with which to adapt, they will be the most impacted by climate change.

The Oil Drum looks at why Peak Oil has profound implications for urban planning Down Under: - Australia is the greatest per - capita energy consumer of the 34 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

New York City is more populous than all but eleven states; if it were granted statehood, it would rank fifty - first in per - capita energy use.»

Firstly, regarding energy equity — or the startling gap between per capita energy consumption in the developed and developing world.

Minimizing per capita energy usage; 2).

Despite making China a focus of global concern because it became the single largest energy user and carbon emitter, China's 2010 per capita energy use (1.85 metric tons of oil equivalent, toe) was actually still below the world average (1.87 toe)[87,88].

The linkage between per capita energy consumption and per capita water consumption and climate is made for some.

And there are oddities, such as Alaska, which has the highest per capita energy consumption of any state, and access to vast reserves of geothermal energy.

While human population grew 5.4 times since 1850, per capita energy consumption exploded at a rate of 8.5 times.

Per capita energy consumption has grown from «8 MJ / day for «primitive man'to 920 MJ / d «technological man» (see chart here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4313879)

Human slavery, there's the solution =============== per capita energy usage in north america is roughly equal every person having 200 human slaves.

Total per - capita energy use in China is about one - fourth to one - fifth that in the U.S..

However, big cities offer opportunities for co-generation of electricity and use of industrial waste heat to reduce per capita energy consumption.

The scenarios also all involve cutting per capita energy demand by around 10 to 15 per cent by 2050, through measures such as more efficient cars and better insulated homes.

«It is obvious that India needs to substantially increase its per capita energy consumption to provide a minimally acceptable level of well - being to its people.»

In this study, we analyzed the effects of financial development, per capita real income, the square of per capita real income, per capita energy consumption and openness on per capita CO2 emissions in the context of Pakistan during 1971 - 2011.

Global per capita energy use increased, while global energy use per $ 1000 GDP declined.

NYC has some of the lowest per capita energy consumption in the US due to it's density which makes it far more efficient.

But over that period, per capita energy consumption has risen in developed and developing countries alike.

This compounds to an order of magnitude growth in population since 1700, which further compounds to more than two orders of magnitude of atmospheric loading from byproducts of energy consumption when taking into account that per capita energy consumption increased by more than an order of magnitude over those three centuries.

Christoph Frei: For one thing, the per capita energy demand will peak before 2030 — it is basically peaking now.

Yes, those of us in rich countries have a lot of opportunity to reduce our energy use, but I actually think rising per capita energy use, at least in the short term, is a good thing overall because so many people live on so little energy now.

Alketi, thanks for adding that piece about per capita energy use in the US.

Yes, per capita energy use is growing, but so is the use of renewable energy.

Their per capita energy consumption is on a par with Swaziland.

Current per capita energy consumption in China is 11 times lower than that of the US.

China — which IEA preliminary data suggests overtook the United States in 2009 to become the world's largest energy user despite its low per capita energy use — contributes 36 % to the projected growth in global energy use.

The only fuel that can provide the world's ever growing per capita energy consumption for thousands of years is nuclear.

The technology currently available for installing distributed renewable energy in developing countries can not yet raise all of the world's poorest to the levels of per capita energy consumption previously reached in the west, but developed countries are already reducing overall energy demand and increasing energy efficiency, rendering historical patterns of energy usage the wrong benchmark for global standards in any case.

Using a cross-country data set, we show that human population growth rates are negatively related to per - capita energy consumption, with zero growth occurring at ∼ 13 kW, suggesting that the global human population will stop growing only if individuals have access to this amount of power.

By Max Schulz California's proud claim to have kept per - capita energy consumption flat while growing its economy is less impressive than it seems.

Psychologically being in denial is much easier than changing life styles to reduce per capita energy use.

Even if it increases for population (i.e. population grows more slowly in future), any matching decrease in doubling time for per - capita energy consumption will offset that increase and CO2 emissions will therefore continue to follow the curve.

It is clear that attempts to solarize the world economy are fated to run into serious obstacles, unless population and per capita energy consumption are drastically reduced.

You have to take into account (a) further increases in per - capita energy consumption in the developed countries and (b) ditto for the developing countries.

Wiki tells us that per capita energy consumption increased by 10 % from 1990 to today.

By de-development we mean lower per - capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.»

A hard look at the issue of energy poverty, including a new «energy development index», a handy measure of how far countries have advanced along the road to energy maturity in the areas of per capita energy use, the use of modern energy services and rates of electrification.

* the problem is in large increases or decreases in per capita energy inputs from what biology has currentlty adapted to.

Main findings are: (1) energy consumption will peak at 5200 — 5400 million tons coal equivalent (Mtce) in 2035 — 2040; (2) CO2 emissions will peak at 9200 — 9400milliontons (Mt) in 2030 — 2035, whilst it can be potentially reduced by 200 — 300Mt; (3) China ׳ s per capita energy consumption and per capita CO2 emission are projected to peak at 4tce and 6.8 t respectively in 2020 — 2030, soon after China steps into the high income group.

The problems start when the decline sets in, and, actually, before because mitigation against and adjustment to decreasing per capita energy takes significant time to avoid massive disruption.

France's 6000W / per capita energy use is still far away from living under 2000W.

n (i) = The sustainable number of people that can occupy any area of this planet = The Number of people living at per capita energy usage E (i)[N (E (i)-RSB- divided by the number of possible people «allowed» by thermodynamic considerations in that Fermionic state [g (i)-RSB-.

We were inspired by the 2,000 Watt Society in Switzerland, and are hoping to cut our per - capita energy use down by 80 percent or so, to a globally sustainable level — without losing a lot of quality of life.

With rising population (At 6.7 Billion biology is certainly coping well enough to support discussion like this) & rising energy costs destined to lead to a dramatic collapse in global per capita energy input the likelihood of a destructive human consiousnee inversion is very high.

Tom Hager, at left, sent a note (below) about his family's effort to shrink its per - capita energy footprint by 80 percent.

More than a few times, Indian diplomats and officials have told me they bristle every time they see India lumped with China in discussions of obligations to eschew fossil fuels, given that India's per - capita energy use is less than a third that of China.

The relationship between per - capita energy use and standard of living is well documented.

«The broader question is, should we spend some of our carbon budget to allow them to increase their incremental emissions if it translates into greater per capita energy use, both in the economy and really lifestyles that more mirror the developed world?»

Co-generation of electricity and use of industrial waste heat to reduce per capita energy consumption.