Per capita income in the United States is higher than per capita income in France; the United States also has a higher proportion of children living in poverty.
Charles Wheelan • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
U.S. emissions would be about 8 percent higher if you included all the products that Americans consume but are made elsewhere. Britain’s would…
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Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
An average inhabitant of the Earth nowadays has at their disposal nearly 700 times more useful energy than their ancestors had at the beginning of the 19th century. Moreover, within a lifetime of people born just after the Second World War the rate had more than tripled, from about 10 to 34 GJ/capita between 1950 and 2020. Translating the last rate
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works
In fact, transmission and distribution are responsible for more than a third of the final cost of electricity.fn3 And many countries don’t want to rely on other countries
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
In electricity, the value is produced by providing consumers and businesses with much finer detail about their own use, together with comparisons and benchmarks with their peer groups, resulting in as much as $340 billion to $580 billion in savings annually.
Robin Chase • Peers Inc
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that global energy consumption in 2050 will increase by 50%, but we absolutely can’t afford to meet this incredible level of energy consumption with our current greenhouse gas-laden methods for energy generation: The consequences to our environment would be dire.