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Surprised to see Ireland in the top right
How so? Genuine question.
We’ve one of highest GDPs in Europe (thanks mainly to foreign direct investment) and definitely high cost of energy
I'm sure this is true and is interesting. But it's also likely true for correlations like GDP-gasoline, GDP-chicken eggs, GDP-beer, GDP-pretty-much-anything. (I'd like to see the GDP-beer numbers tho!)
GDP-beer. such an important metric is missing!
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This is important to understand. If you want to save energy, cut your industry production (see Germany).
Thanks you guys...
There is no way to significantly reduce over energy consumption and increase quality of life.
The ideal solution to climate change isn't reducing humanity's energy consumption, it's producing abundant, clean energy so that there's no need for pollution.
Obviously
one of my favorite examples of: "correlation is not causation"
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This chart is either misleading, or difficult to interpret. It seems the Y-axis scale is neither linear nor logarithmic scale?
And what determines the plot size - population? If so, then this looks outdated wrt India vs China pop.
Either way, if the data is somewhat recent and accurate… India being right at the margin of “energy rich per capita” is the biggest takeaway to me.
I guess same applies to the X-axis, both jump 1k, 2k, 5k, 10k… so I guess it’s at least consistently erratic 🤣
No way Pakistan is that close to India as India is borderline and about to break
Electricity ≠ Energy
Some countries use a shiton of energy that is not electricity, sometimes because they don't have electricity, they just burn wood or coil for everything anf this has a much lower efficiency and much higher pollution per kWh consumed.
Usually electicity is the most efficient way to move thing/people and sometimes heat thing/space, then if the electricity is produced with a low polluting method, it's also the less polluting energy consumed.
Of course, not comsuming the energy in the first place is always less polluting but humains need energy to live and more to live more comfortably.
We could write books about optimizing our energy consuption and change our society to waste much less, work less (which consume a lot for often nothing really produced) while being more free. Bitcoin can be a first step but it will not solve everything.