Helloplite said:
generic-user-1 said:
mai said:
generic-user-1 said:
what ther tasks? shuld i buy another car just because my car needs 4l/100km and not 10 like 10 years ago? should i by another fridge because my new one just needs half the energie the old one needed?
100$/b is still cheap oil if your car just needs 4l/100km...
you should better look at food and water. those are far bigger problems in the future.
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Building infrastructure first and foremost instead of wasting it on rampart consumerism, and therefore essentially wasting your future. Food and water are functions of energy availability, so I have those covered.
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but we allready have the best roads in the world. no other country lets you drive with good speed on the roads because they know their roads suck. could you imagine driving 240km/h(150mph) on a highway or a road in russia? and sure public transportation could be a bit better, but its allready good. and if we improve such things we will need less energie. there is just no way europe can consume more energie, we all have fridges and cars, and we cant buy a 2nd and 3rd fridge just because the 1st one consumes so little energie. there is just no need.
and water isnt a function of energie. it comes for free out of the sky, no need for energie as long as you dont life in a desert.
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Not sure if you are missing fundamental bits of science, but to clarify a couple of things:
1. Modern fridges consume less energy -- the proliferation of devices that consume energy however offsets any such benefits. Overall, we use more energy now than before, despite more effective consumption of energy per device.
2. The water cycle is fundamentally related to energy -- in this case the energy of the sun and the average temperature which affects the rate of evaporation.
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1. not in europe, europes consumption went down. and there are no new devices that need alot of juice, AND they replace other devices.
every laptop replaces an old PC, every tablet reduces the time spend on a laptop or watching TV. my mom changed from a 200w pc to a 4w tab and a 2,5w smartphone for checking her email.
2. thats right, but doesnt matter te sun isnt running on cheap oil...
