How much energy powers a good life? Less than you're using, says a new report

[livingston]

American use four times the energy needed for a good life - NPR​

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How much energy powers a good life? Less than you're using, says a new report​

• How much energy does it take to have a good and healthy life? A new Stanford University studyhas found that the answer is far less than the average American is using.
  
  Comparing energy use and quality of life across 140 countries, researchers found that the magic number is 75 gigajoules a year, or less. For context, one gigajoule of energy is equal to about 8 gallons of gasoline.
  
  Americans use 284 gigajoules a year per capita, nearly four times that much energy, according to the new research.
  
  "That suggests to me that we could nudge energy use downwards in a bunch of hyper-consuming countries and not just make a more equitable world, but perhaps make ourselves healthier and happier," said lead author and professor of earth system science Rob Jackson.

 

[fresch]

All of the xspirts need to live the bs they spout for 5 yrs., with that the rest of us can continue on living our lives as we see fit.

 

[livingston]

Folks I believe my thinking on how they will achieve this new green deal. is correct. Limit the amount of energy we will be allowed to use
So much KW hours per house hold .. To run your house and power your EV...
Now your Grand parents had heating or cooling your house by zone, Heat in one room ...My parents had this a coal parlor stove in one room...
At times heated the whole house ... No... Only that one room .. The rest of the house was freezing ... Still sits on my porch ... My mother hung the laundry on the line.. Hmmm ... Wonder how that HMO you live in would allow that one

"The fastest and the quickest thing that you could do is do conservation and energy efficiency measures," said Ladislaw. That would help not only to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also would alleviate the energy security crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, she continued.
On the individual level, changing home energy use behaviors could reduce residential energy demand in the U.S. by up to 20%, according to the International Energy Agency. Some examples include heating or cooling your house by zone, rather than setting it all to the same temperature or using cold water to wash clothes and a clothesline to dry them.

"It also means you're walking and biking more, using public transport and making less long trips," said Jackson.

 

[livingston]

Folks we can laugh a bit about this NPR Report... THIS is what the new world order is about... Make mega cities for us common folks. We see it in China. Look at the lock downs... Perfect control of the masses. Lock them up and let them starve .. Until they get the shot ... According to Fauci...
I have traveled in China folks ... 2500 people living in one building. 10,000 persons living on like 50 acres of land ... ... Something like that... This was in Beijing. Did drive by some of the homes of the rich folks ... All gated off and would fit in with many homes in LA. California. ... The rich and powerful will not be hanging their laundry out to dry with the rest of us.

 

[prambo]

More bogus leftist claptrap.

Everything they do is focused on control of all parts of people's lives.

This country better wake the fuck up ASAP or they won't have a pot to piss in.

The 25-30% of the country that understands what is happening will be isolated by the fucking zombie hoards.

As long as Farcebook, Twatter and sportsball exist, the zombies will never see it coming.

ETA: It's on NPR, so it's nothing but propaganda. Anyone who contributes to their "local" PBS tee-vee channel is a leftist running dog.

 

[Jezman]

So the Fake news reported its got to be true.

 

[SonOfSun]

Need more power!

 

[turbobike]

I'm willing to go along...as long as the Hollywood leftoids give up Air Conditioning, private jets, Limos and heated pools...and the AL Gores of the world bicycle or use a sailing ship to scream about global-freezing-warming-climate-change...

 

[prambo]

This may be a publication that parrots the petroleum industries corporate line, but the points made are exactly those that the "climate change" loons either can't discern or will never admit.

It actually isn't even a "chicken and egg" conundrum - even a moderate switch to "all electric" would require its own unique infrastructure (electric grid, electric powered smelting and mining), that would have to be built before even the parts for EVs, etc could be manufactured, and that would have to be converted, or changed, from present methods.

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-En...-Transition-Race-Before-It-Really-Begins.html

"One would think that at least with wind and solar, the supply chains are there and well developed. That may be the case; however, the metals needed to feed into these supply chains are in problematic supply, especially in Europe.

Like fossil fuels, Europe has little local mining production, so it is heavily dependent on imports. To make matters a lot more complicated for it, its main supplier of aluminum, nickel, and zinc is Russia. Almost all of the lithium and rare earths used in Europe are also sourced from abroad.

"The global energy transition is progressing faster than the mining project pipeline, with copper, cobalt, lithium, nickel, and rare earths all at risk of a disruptive demand pull between now and 2035," said the authors of a study from Belgian KU Leuven University that warned Europe was facing a shortage of all the main ingredients of the energy transition."

So, the war in Ukraine is really Europe, and by externsion the fUSA, cutting their own throats...well, the governments cutting the people's throats.