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According to the below EIA article, things are getting worse worldwide. > Global electricity consumption continues to increase faster than world population, le
by bmitc 4y ago
According 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."