World energy consumption 1970 to 2005

This clip from Nobody's Fuel, comes from Section 1: Prisoner's Dilemma -- fossil fuels & what energy means to us. This clip describes how much energy the world consumes and what those sources are. This clip clearly demonstrates how world energy consumption has grown rapidly, nearly doubling in just the past 30 years.

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[rickcain2320]

Free energy from the sun for the next 2 billion years

[newage4energy]

Maybe we can find a way to tap dark energy, which seems to have an almost endless supply.

[pegobuilders]

vast savings on your energy bill and a dramatic reduction in energy consumption can be achieved by improving insulation

[demexii1]

That is wrong, as efficiency increases so does demand (as it is now cheaper to use). It is Jevons Paradox. We either need to use less or get different fuels. I like the latter personally.

[ukiki2012]

I always look at these numbers on these youtube videos and I'm thinking there are 30,000,000 people watching the damn fall out boys or 100,000,000 computer screens and towers running to watch a guy dance around like a retard, it's so wasteful and yet it shows how much energy is being used, it's really belittleing...

[margot980]

Yeah, CH4 is 15x more potent, so a good gain. As for the world supply, some is much better than none, and our current sewage disposal and treatment seem perhaps more shame-driven than rational.

[DrBuzz0]

That is true and in some cases that also can reduce global warming gasses because methane is more potent than CO2. However the supply of this is not nearly enough to meet world demand

[margot980]

Natural gas doesn't count as a fossil fuel if it is derived from sewage and agri animal manures, then it's renewable. It is do-able.

See cow power, Vermont, here on the tube.

Also on net, biogas in rural China, Paul Henderson, CityFarmer website.

Also georgiastrait dot org/?q=node/359, Salter on amazing stuff in Sweden.

[apheta]

While the data on energy consumption in this video is instructive, it is wrong to accept that energy consumption must continue to increase, and therefore we must add to energy resources. The most effective "alternative" is not nuclear or even renewables: it is improved efficiency.