Per capita
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 09-04-15 12:04
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- capita energy consumption in different countries
- Affluence
- People with more money can afford more energy (buy more goods/appliances)
- Laws of supply and demand: Prices low enough for rich to afford and still be wasteful.
- Relative cost of energy
- Energy = cheap if locally abundant
- E.g. Petrol in USA
- Energy = cheap if locally abundant
- Level of industry
- Industrialized countries use a lot more energy in processing and transporting goods
- heating and lighting/manufacture of equipment
- Industrialized countries use a lot more energy in processing and transporting goods
- Type of industry
- Different industries require diff. amounts of energy
- Industries = extracting/ chemical requires most
- Aluminium is very energy expensive due to it being reactive and binding to oxygen in its ore.
- Requires electrolysis
- Nitrate fertilisers require haber process
- Social and envrio awareness
- Some countries have had problems with energy supplies
- E.g Denmark and Norway have usual energy shortages. And cold winters so build energy efficient homes.
- Climate
- Cold Winters require more heating in house. While hot areas need cooling
- Windy weather increases heat loss, whereas sunny increases passive solar heat gains
- Cold Winters require more heating in house. While hot areas need cooling
- Climate
- E.g Denmark and Norway have usual energy shortages. And cold winters so build energy efficient homes.
- Climate
- Cold Winters require more heating in house. While hot areas need cooling
- Windy weather increases heat loss, whereas sunny increases passive solar heat gains
- Cold Winters require more heating in house. While hot areas need cooling
- Some countries have had problems with energy supplies
- Different industries require diff. amounts of energy
- Affluence
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