[Gllug] Major power cuts in North America

[Chris Bell]

On Thu 14 Aug, Alain Williams wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:24:48PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
> > Simon Morris <smorris at batesuk.com> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > Hmm. Reminds me of the figures for power consumption:
> > The US apparently uses 25% of the world's total "fuel-sourced" power
> > consumption.
> 
> That is what the row over the kyoto agreement is.
> 5% of the world's population using 25% of the world's energy.
> Bush stopped all of the kyoto negotiation.
> 
> And they still can't understand why some people don't like them.
> 
> > The US military apparently uses 6% of the world's total "fuel-sourced" power
> > consumption.
> 

   Since one of the easiest ways to increase the problem is to run air
conditioning systems, perhaps we should consider taxing air conditioning.
About twice as much power is required for lowering the temperature as for
raising the temperature by the same amount.

-- 
Chris Bell


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