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Likewise if one looks at total energy consumption in the US: 2000: 98.7 quadrillion BTU / 281.4 million people = 350 million BTU/person/year 2019: 100.
by mlyle 4y ago
Likewise if one looks at total energy consumption in the US:
2000: 98.7 quadrillion BTU / 281.4 million people = 350 million BTU/person/year
2019: 100.5 quadrillion BTU / 328.3 million people = 306 million BTU/person/year.
On the other hand, increased use of global manufacturing and reliance on ocean transport is concealed by this metric. Still, it doesn't look like overall things are getting worse.
For the CO2 metric:
2000: 20.9 tonnes per capita
2019: 15.7 tonnes per capita
https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec1_19.pdf https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec1_19.pdf
- bmitc 4y agoAccording to the below EIA article, things are getting worse worldwide. > Global electricity consumption continues to increase faster than world population, leading to an increase in the average amount of electricity consumed per person https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44095#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20total%20electricity%20consumption%20has,%28as%20measured%20by%20gross%20domestic%20product%2C%20or%20GDP%29 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44095#:~:tex....
- mlyle 4y agoWell, sure. You have developing countries... developing, in addition to the (difficult to quantify) outsourcing effects that I mentioned above. Note that I really want electricity usage to go up a lot, too. It's just overall primary energy usage that we want to stay level or go down. That's why I used the primary energy usage metric. After all, moving to an electric car or replacing natural gas heating with a heat pump "increases electricity usage."