A.+and+A.+Bertino's+Energy+Wiki

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What is the problem at hand? Worldwide the demand for energy supplies continues to grow at an alarming fast rate. Between 1850 and 1970, the number of people living on Earth more than tripled, yet the energy they consumed rose by twelve. By 2002, the world population had grown another 68 percent and fossil fuel consumption was up another 73 percent. Along with this dramatic increase of the population you would assume that it also means more focus could be placed on creating new sources of energy, but they have not not. As one of the leading country of our world we continue to consume five times more energy than the average global citizen, 10 times more than the average Chinese, and nearly 20 times more than the average Indian, with all whom have a much larger population than ours. Currently the consequences of our actions are becoming more and more apparent seeing since energy consumption affects everything from a nation’s foreign debt to the stability of the Middle East, from the air we breathe to the water we drink.

What is the driving force of the problem? The driving force behind this problem is that a majority of world's population either does not care about the issue or have not been informed about the severity of the problem and the consequences that they might suffer from them. Sadly the real reality is that both informed and uninformed people still feel the need to be the best and have that best items or don't care and don't want to care. Because whether it be the new SUV that needs to have its gas refilled very often or more simply a lazy person who keeps an everyday items such as a power sapping power cord plugged in all day they are both driving the problem to continue to grow.

What are poeple currently doing or not doing to solve the problem? Currently there have been two major influential groups trying to help solve the energy problem. The first influential group being the individual governments that are trying to help control energy use by imposing taxes and standards to help control supplies, demand, and the efficiency of our homes, appliances, cars, and factories. For example in Denmark more than 30 percent of families do not even own cars because the governments tax on auto registrations exceeds a car’s retail price, which therefore pushes the citizens to use the well developed rail and bike routes. The second group of people currently trying to help solve the the energy problem are consumers; these consumers have started to buy hybrid cars, locally produced produced (which eliminates the shipping factor) and using greener energy sources. However, the amount of people following trying to help solve the problem are very minimal compared to the amount of energy our world continues to rapidly consume.



An interesting topic involving our world's energy crisis is: Hydro Power.