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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: --Energy and Sustainability
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.153557.1513@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 15:35:57 GMT
- References: <1466601742@igc.apc.org>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1466601742@igc.apc.org> tgray@igc.apc.org (Tom Gray) writes:
- >
- >From: Tom Gray <tgray>
- >Subject: --Energy and Sustainability
- >
- >o World energy use would be held to 30 TWa (about three times
- > today's consumption), a reduction of 70 percent below a BAU
- > level of 100 TWa (nearly nine times current use). (At the
- > same time, global per-capita energy use would be stabilized at
- > 3 kW/person, or about one-fourth of present U.S. usage per
- > person.)
-
- These units seem useless to me. 30 Terawatt what? 3 kw/person per
- hour, day, week, month, year, what? Power is measured in watts,
- energy is measured in watt-hours. This information would be interesting
- if it meant anything.
-
- Gary
-