Energy and growth: A BRIEF SUMMARY!
When we talk about energy worldwide is basically talking about fossil fuels, other forms of primary energy still remaining anecdotal today (less than 5%!).
With the practice of fire, fossil energy has imposed itself on men as obvious, first in solid form (coal), then liquid (petroleum) and finally in gaseous form (natural gas). Its presence almost everywhere on the planet, its apparent "abundance", its relative ease of use, will have made fossil energy the foundation of economic growth of the XIXth century and especially of that, extraordinary, that will have experienced the second half of the XNUMXth century.
And the desire to optimize the use of each of these "forms" (phases would say physicists) will have generated innovations and other technological advances that are often great (steam engine, heat engines, etc.), some of which will have been boosted by major conflicts. that knew the XXth century ...
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But the first object of this article is to highlight the almost perfect correlation between growth (of GDP), energy consumption (and therefore essentially fossil energy) and
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions : what the following figure shows (at least for OECD countries) ... in order to deduce some lessons for the years to come.
Three articles:
https://www.econologie.com/croissance-pi ... -4090.html
https://www.econologie.com/croissance-pi ... -4097.html
https://www.econologie.com/croissance-pi ... -4099.html
Full document to read in .pdf here:
https://www.econologie.info/share/partag ... XL686O.pdf
By Remi Guillet. He writes regularly for CFO News, such as:
http://www.cfo-news.com/R-et-D-Investir ... 10773.html