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How do you account for overall energy use being up massively, and rising at record breaking pace

• timschmidt 1y ago
  According to the following references, most residential energy is used for heating and cooling. Most commercial energy is used for lighting, heating, and cooling. And most industrial energy is used in chemical production, petroleum and coal products, and paper production. 1: https://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/corporate/bt_stateindustry.pdf https://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/cor... 2: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/industry.php https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/industry.p...
• rtuulik 1y ago
  Its not. For the US, energy use per capita has been trending downwards since 1979. For the developing worlds, increase in energy usage is tied to increasing living standards.
  • palata 1y ago
    > For the US, energy use per capita has been trending downwards since 1979 It would be relevant if the US was completely isolated from the rest of the world. But guess what? The hardware you used to write this comment does not come from the US. Not taking into account the energy that went into building and transporting your hardware where you are currently using is... well wrong.
• onlyrealcuzzo 1y ago
  > How do you account for overall energy use being up massively, and rising at record breaking pace That has nothing to do with how much energy is spent on Google and the Internet vs how many more people there are, and how much more stuff the average person in developing economies has.