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Re: The US is almost out of the top 10 energy consumers
« on: August 29, 2004, 04:44:58 PM »
Electricity consumers, not energy consumers. That doesn't take any account of other forms of energy used, such as automotive, gas or oil heating, etc. I'm not even sure it takes industrial usage into account either - it doesn't say.

Its also important where this energy comes from. Norway is a high user but they even have generators that work on the warmth of sewage water, so they're very efficient.
 

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Re: The US is almost out of the top 10 energy consumers
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2004, 06:17:09 PM »
Oh, and almost all of Iceland's power comes from geothermal vents. :-)
 

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Re: The US is almost out of the top 10 energy consumers
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2004, 11:13:44 PM »
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Pity these figures don't show the avarage amount of electricity/energy used per citizen.
tis a bit weird to compare for instance the US (278 million citizens) with the Netherlands (16 million citizens) with these figures.


Uh, they do. Per capita means "per head", i.e. per citizen. The actual number of citizens is immaterial.
 

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Re: The US is almost out of the top 10 energy consumers
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2004, 12:12:05 AM »
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Come on all americans, how do I sue Mother Earth?


Make lots of CO2 and claim you're not, but when it's proven you are say that your country is a natural sink and absorbs more CO2 than you release, and when science proves you wrong, just deny basic physics and say the greenhouse effect is junk science.
 

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Re: The US is almost out of the top 10 energy consumers
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2004, 05:26:26 AM »
The laws of physics are blatantly Unconstitutional!