Tag: energy consumption
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China ‘leapfrogs US to become biggest energy user’
BBC: China 'leapfrogs US to become biggest energy user' China has overtaken the United States to become the world's top energy consumer for the first time, a new report says. Provisional figures from the International Energy Agency indicate that China's energy demand has doubled in a decade. The IEA said China had taken first place…
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2009: Most Energy-Efficient Economy in History
Carpe Diem: 2009: Most Energy-Efficient Economy in History …Amazingly, the EIA report also showed that total U.S. energy consumption in 2009 (94.66 quadrillion BTUs) was less than the total energy consumed 12 years ago in 1997 (94.76 quadrillion BTUs), even though we produced almost 32 percent more output last year than in 1997, the U.S.…
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Consumption vs. Consumerism (Part 2)
Scot McKnight completed a great series on Adam Hamilton's new book Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Thoughts on Religion, Morality, and Politics. I have the book but haven't read it yet. I have a lot of respect for Hamilton, and I'm looking forward to reading it. However, in the course of…