{"id":3024,"date":"2014-06-22T22:49:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T03:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2014-06-26T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T15:24:03","slug":"world-of-offshore-energy-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/world-of-offshore-energy-use\/","title":{"rendered":"A World View of Off-Shore Energy use"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a long debate and mystery caused by economic accounting for the world’s energy use not being able to trace the trade in economic energy services, the amount of China’s energy embedded in our TV’s and the amount of of France’s energy embedded in Soviet block heavy industry… etc. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

(See also\u00a0“Pictures of WhatGDPMeasures”<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a011 figures and brief explanations tracing the Money\/Energy link)<\/p>\n

A country\u2019s Share of the World\u2019s GDP per Share of World Energy<\/em><\/span>, measures<\/p>\n

“Relative Economic Energy Dependence” \u2018NEED\u2019<\/h4>\n

a strong indicator of how much of its economy is fed by off-shore, mostly \u2018fossil\u2019<\/em><\/span>, energy services, most often<\/em> not being counted in national energy accounts<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0 Countries do have different energy productivities, but World competition actively selects competitive energy uses wherever they are found. \u00a0So like waves on a pond\u2026 the national accounts vary in relation to each other, and the global accounts are smooth and reflect the gradual changes of the system as a whole<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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A. – World averages compared to OECD and Non-OECD performance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We see in Figure A strong diverging trends in GDP and Energy use for OECD and Non-OECD groups, along with converging steady trends for the ratio Energy\/$GDP,\u00a0over the past 40 years.<\/p>\n