We Don’t Need No… – small dead animals

Energy Matters;

EU primary energy consumption peaked at 1839 Mtoe in 2006 and since then has fallen by 11.8% to 2014. Many countries display this type of pattern and it is pertinent to ask why decades of energy and economic growth has turned into a decade of energy decline and economic stagnation? There are a number of factors that may explain this but a prime candidate is the energy price inflation that took place in the period 2002 to 2008 that culminated in the finance crash. The earlier spike in oil price back in 1980 produced a similar though more short-lived effect. It is also pertinent to ask to what extent on-going high energy prices are caused by EU energy policy that targets CO2 emissions? Other factors include the ongoing € crisis and unsustainable levels of debt.

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The reason for dropping EU energy consumption could be the transfer of heavy industry overseas. Things like primary and secondary steel production, the smelting of aluminum, energy intensive manufacturing.
It could also be the high cost of energy. The higher the price, the greater incentive not to use it, including not being able to afford to use it.

Someone please send this to Bo*b Chiarelli and the evil genius, Wynne since they don’t seem to get the message of history.

Agree – they’ve exported their energy hungry industry to China and India. I’m sue the graphs for these countries would be mirror images. Apparently self destruction is how you measure progress today.

India and China energy consumption exploded from 2000 – 2014. India up almost 200% and China up almost 300%. USA and Canada both flat over 15 year period. Germany down. France down. Japan down.
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/#energy-consumption-data.html

Speaking of mirror image graphs … the cleaner our air keeps getting in CA … the FOULER the air gets in China. We are true geniuses here in CA ! We have got all the kewlest technology … with none of the unpleasant side effects. And what the hell do I care about some diseased peasant in China. Fk()u-em ! I’ve got MINE ! Ski-reww-U !

The Law of Unintended Consequences.
…..”Unintended”. Right.

@ Rockwood, yes offshoring of heavy industry is another factor. The UK is now gearing up to offshore its electricity generation with a total of 12 GW interconnection with Europe planned. Thats about 25% of UK peak demand. What better way to get rid of your emissions, jobs and energy security than to have your electricity made in Poland.

The ultimate irony would be if they have to start buying cheap power from China in order to keep their industry from moving away.
http://joannenova.com.au/2016/04/will-chinas-coal-power-sell-electricity-to-germany/
Get a load of this. China has been adding a new idle coal fired plant nearly every week. It is building 368 coal fired plants and planning a further 803. The Greens think the Chinese have over capitalized, made a bubble, and have built a bunch of white elephants (maybe they have). But Germany has crippled its electrical generators in order to make the weather cooler, and pays exorbitant prices per kilowatt hour that are driving businesses overseas. Merkel is still trying to get solar power to work in a land where the only thing that will make the current panels economic is if the Earth changes its orbital tilt.
Well say hello to the savvy Chinese investors who may be able to solve both problems. It seems hard to believe but all that surplus energy might just find its way to Germany. With new ultra hot coal power there is talk they can produce electricity so incredibly cheap they can send it on ultra high voltage lines all the way to Berlin. Barking? They’ll probably earn carbon credits for doing it too.

The main problem is that leftists are running things and they haven’t a clue about how things actually work. They also have no intention of doing what’s right and best … they are into something else and it’s about them at the expense of the of the entire planet … eventually …

kenji, I think this air stuff circulates around the globe.

Oh, for pity’s sake. Does no one here understand basic economics?
When oil ran up from $30/bbl in 1999 to $2000 in 2005, people all over the world started shifting away from oil. When restrictions on coal, etc. forced up the price of electricity, people started using less electricity.
Replace 5 100W incandenscents with 5 LED bulbs, and you save 480 W of energy every hour the lights are on. for 2 million people that’s about a GW of power saved. All those little consumer conservation efforts add up, as we found out in Ontario last week because we’re going to be charged more for the electricity we used less of.

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