How have we, as individuals, led to the increase of the demand and energy consumption? The energy consumption is expected to increase by 36% by 2035 Socially: Energy for entertainment at home e.g Play Stations, DVDs, computers, peripherals, etc. -52 plasma is equivalent to 15 light bulbs -40 plasma is equivalent to 10 light bulbs -LCD 32 is equivalent to 5 light bulbs Saving time technology -a kettle uses as much as 1000-3000 watts for 1 usage -90% of the energy used for washing clothes often goes just to heat the water Tourism/Traveling -600 million passengers boarded domestic flights in the US, which is on average 1.75 million a day -In 2009, nearly 900 million international tourist arrivals were counted worldwide. Technologically: Energy nowadays is needed to support massive servers such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook Twitter Facebook’s data center energy use grew 33 percent in 2012, as the company installed tens of thousands of servers in its new company-built data centers Facebook’s server farms used 678 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity in 2012, up from 509 million kWh in 2011, the company said. Transportation: -car ownership -between the 1980s and 2020 there are 10 million cars worldwide -In the USA there are 800 cars per 100 people -In Luxembourg, there are 700 cars per 100 people -New car registrations were expected to increase by 4.7% globally in 2010
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:13:16 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015