Sentences with phrase «per 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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-.

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.

«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.

«The state of New Jersey's per capita energy consumption exceeds the photosynthetic productivity of the area even if it were pristine,» noted physicist Klaus Lackner, director of the Earth Institute's Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Columbia event.

This increasing per capita energy supply has also hiked up Earth's carrying capacity — the number of people it can sustain at equilibrium — and allowed the population to grow at an ever - faster, or exponential, rate.

You read that the correlations are really phenomenal, that the U.S. is between four and five times the world average per capita income, between four and five times the world average per capita energy consumption and between four and five times the world average per capita CO2 emissions.

Not exact matches

The world's most populous Muslim country and third - largest democracy with 238 million people, it has a per capita income more than double India's, a 90 % adult literacy rate and is energy independent.

However, as he argued in his most recent book, The End of Energy Obesity, modern societies have at their disposal the technological tools, and possibly the social pressure, to consume less energy in absolute terms, not just per capita or per dollar oEnergy Obesity, modern societies have at their disposal the technological tools, and possibly the social pressure, to consume less energy in absolute terms, not just per capita or per dollar oenergy in absolute terms, not just per capita or per dollar of GDP.

Credit raters, well aware that Alberta's energy - royalty days are on indefinite hold, have urged balance through spending cuts or revenue hikes, noting the province's high per - capita expenses and low tax burden make a dangerous combination, yet offer ample room to act.

To put it another way, energy use per capita is now about twice what it was in 1950.

Even our present rate of energy consumption is not sustainable in the long term, so it is a matter of decreasing per - capita energy use as soon as possible.

In India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at night.

Waste can have a very high contribution to providing electricity to citizens and alleviating energy poverty, especially in countries with low access to electricity and reduced electricity consumption per capita.

How will you respond to changes in per capita consumption, population size, labour force productivity and share of renewables in the energy mix for example?

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