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The latest BP Statistical Review of World Energy<\/a> shows the world is continuing to undergo a relentless rise in energy consumption.\u00a0 If anything the rate of energy consumption is increasing.\u00a0 The only time in recent years this relentless rise in energy consumption has abated was in 2009 the year after the global economic crash.<\/p>\n

\"bp<\/a>The latest data also shows that depressingly most of our energy still comes from oil, gas and coal.\u00a0 The consumption of coal, gas and oil is still growing, although the consumption of oil is slowing relative to the others.\u00a0 The renewable sources are at the top of the graph.\u00a0 But for example for all the talk of solar power its numbers are all but invisible.\u00a0 The only major renewable is hydro-power which is not always climate friendly.<\/p>\n

We have a long way to go to reach a sustainable climate friendly energy system and little time to achieve this.\u00a0 How much more the global climate and stocks of fossil fuels can cope with this relentless rise in energy consumption is open to conjecture.\u00a0 The BP data takes no account of rising consumption. We simply have to learn to use less energy and are finding it hard to do so.\u00a0 It seems likely that this is a lesson that will be foisted on us by a crisis.\u00a0 In a separate blog post I will look at the renewables data.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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