The Energy Wasters Report

Europeans are buying bigger and bigger cars, offsetting their other reduction efforts.

The Wall Street Journal had an interesting report on Jan 20th about how despite being focused on carbon emissions reductions, Europeans are buying bigger and bigger cars, offsetting their other reduction efforts. In fact, the European Commission’s president, who’s been giving stump speeches about […]

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Brits are the most wasteful people in Europe, according to a survey of the energy habits of 5,000 Europeans. A report today by the UK`s Energy Saving Trust found Germans are the most efficient in their energy use, followed by the Spanish, but Brits top the European Energy Wasters` league.

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The Ukraine is one of the biggest energy wasting countries in the world, according to Radio Free Europe, mostly because of its longtime addiction to cheap Russian natural gas.

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This BBC article has a nice little pie chart showing how residential energy is used in the UK, as well as a nice thermal scan of Buckingham Palace - looks like they’re burning some midnight oil.

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According to this 2005 article, China spends three times the world average on energy — and seven times what Japan spends — to produce $1 of gross domestic product.

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With a combined population of 2.6 Billion, rapidly developing countries like China, India and Brazil are also the most energy-inefficient and wasteful, according to this piece by Interpress News Agency. The problem is that their bankers are too conservative, and don’t want to fund conservation projects.

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Excessively cold air conditioning is epidemic in Asia, according to this Wall St. Journal article, forcing cubicle dwellers to use portable heaters even with outside tempatures hovering in the 90s. The article focused on Hong Kong as an example - and then a year later the Journal ran an article about how smog in Hong […]

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Bad news in Beijing: almost half the electricity used by the city’s residential buildings is consumed by 311 upscale hotels, according to China Hotel news. The article says new building codes should help change this, but its not real convincing.

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Manchester Metronews has a short piece showing a thermal imaging view of Manchester Town Hall, making it plain where the energy leaks are. Also mentions a British gas site with a cool interactive house where you click and see where the energy pounds go down the drain (one of three pounds spent on energy in […]

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