http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita

transition said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita

Some of those numbers are surprising.

I thought Australia was supposed to be up there with USA?

UK and Denmark much less than France?

The Rev Dodgson said:

transition said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita

Some of those numbers are surprising.

I thought Australia was supposed to be up there with USA?

UK and Denmark much less than France?

Trinidad and Tobago?! Some of those numbers look very dodgy.

PS, If you add in the energy from sunshine required to grow crops and to produce salt from seawater then I bet that the numbers would be significantly different.

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

transition said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita

Some of those numbers are surprising.

I thought Australia was supposed to be up there with USA?

UK and Denmark much less than France?

Trinidad and Tobago?! Some of those numbers look very dodgy.

PS, If you add in the energy from sunshine required to grow crops and to produce salt from seawater then I bet that the numbers would be significantly different.

As an aside, are France’s figures based on what’s generated in the country because I think it exports electricity which will change its per capita figure.

mollwollfumble said:

Trinidad and Tobago?! Some of those numbers look very dodgy.

PS, If you add in the energy from sunshine required to grow crops and to produce salt from seawater then I bet that the numbers would be significantly different.

Sure, but when we talk about “consumption” we normally mean energy that we need to do something extra to use, not the 99.9% of our energy needs that we get direct from solar.

T&T is one of the largest producers of natural gas in the world and is home to a number of very large energy-intensive petrochemical production facilities including ammonia, urea and LNG plants. These big energy consumers in a country with a small population base lead to very high per-capita figures.