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The most interesting statistic I've heard recently is that the United States uses more energy just for its AC than the entire African continent does for literal
by gambiting 4y ago
The most interesting statistic I've heard recently is that the United States uses more energy just for its AC than the entire African continent does for literally everything combined.
The gap is incredible.
- ttarabula 4y agothat's an amazing stat, so I went looking for a primary source - what I found so far was a blurb in this Guardian article that links to another Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/26/how-america-became-addicted-to-air-conditioning https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/26/how-amer... "US statistics are bracing. A nation with 318 million people accounting for just 4.5% of world population consumes more energy for air conditioning than the rest of the world combined. It uses more electricity for cooling than Africa, population 1.1 billion, uses for everything." I'd love to see some charts that break this down visually (energy consumption by region/type).