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And probably both of these can be explained largely by the fact that most of the energy intensive production happens now in Asia.
by karmakurtisaani 1mo ago
And probably both of these can be explained largely by the fact that most of the energy intensive production happens now in Asia.
- bluGill 1mo agoThey used and installed a fair amount of renewable energy since then. Plus, the similar efficiency gains in the EU and the article have also happened in the US. While there hasn't been government encouragement directly, there have been a lot of things that cause it to happen anyway.
- vlovich123 1mo agoInstalling renewable energy doesn’t change the amount of energy required. The shift to Asia is almost certainly the bulk of it
- bluGill 1mo agoIt changes the amount of oil used which is the more important consultation
- vlovich123 1mo agoWhich is irrelevant to the article which talks about the amount of energy used.
- NooneAtAll3 1mo agoeveryone switched from manufacturing to service jobs
- tonyedgecombe 1mo agoAlthough manufacturing output has remained stable.
- phil21 1mo agoOnly if you use dollar value output as some weird substitute for actually making things.
- david38 1mo agoManufacturing is brutal at efficiency. Every generation they aggressively cut material use and process energy usage. Look at any device that had a lot of metal years ago. The second part is phones have replaced a lot of people’s “stuff”. Young people prefer phones to cars even. You can loads of “stuff” on your phone and it’s just software.
- ahartmetz 1mo ago>Young people prefer phones to cars even I mean, I probably do, too. I certainly use my phone much more often (I live in Berlin). But please, can we not make cars smartphones on wheels? I don't want to throw away my car after five years because the software is outdated, the CPU has become too weak and the battery is worn out. (Not a dig against electric cars, their batteries usually last much longer)
- xethos 1mo agoI get your point, and adore my Fiero, but most software updates to cellphones are required because they're networked. Cars don't have to be, nor (IMO) should be internet-connected. So if the CPU in the infotainment system was sufficient at launch, and there's no reason to update the (not-internet-connected) software, then the CPU will continue to be sufficient, and the software being out of date is irrelevant. Not to defend the modern tablet-on-dash, internet-connected, reports-your-sexual-preference "car", just to point out that the transition to digital isn't, by itself, bad
- boredatoms 1mo agoCheck out the Slate truck/suv
- ahartmetz 1mo agoI'd be more interested in a car, the kind that people had before they went mad. Smaller frontal area, lower center of gravity, lighter weight. More economic, faster, more fun to drive. I don't want to sit high neither, lower is more fun.
- tonyedgecombe 1mo agoMost energy consumption is for transportation and housing. The US trade deficit with the rest of the world is only about 3% of gdp, that doesn’t buy much in the way of emissions.
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- BobbyTables2 1mo agoHow is Europe similar then? I’d expect the US spends vastly more energy on transportation (individual vehicles) and housing (larger, more AC, etc)
- wahern 1mo agoThat's true for states like California and perhaps the US generally, but in states like Texas industry uses half of all energy. ( https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66224 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66224) Likewise for South Korea and China where over half is for industry. This is precisely because most states exported their heavy industry, both overseas and to states like Texas, which has many chemical plants and similar energy-intensive industry.
- tuatoru 1mo ago> Most energy consumption is for transportation and housing. Of course it is, if you have offshored energy-intensive industries.