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Old 11-09-2019, 03:30 PM   #7880 (permalink)
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China is building. They were dismayed to find that there economy was only growing at a 6% annual rate which was well short of the last few years. Only 6%/ year. That is a doubling of the economy every 12 years! Which is generally a doubling of material throughput every 12 years. And generally a doubling of energy consumption every 12 years.
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https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-po...t-half-of-2019
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Embodied energy in new construction.
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"Power-sector emissions, which had driven the rebound in overall emissions since 2017, flattened off. However, there was a surge in real estate and infrastructure construction that saw emissions from steel and cement expand rapidly."
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There are limits to growth on a finite planet.
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