In fact, renewable energy production is dropping in European Union member states as a percentage of total consumption.
The Commerce Department said last week that total consumption increased 2.5% in the third quarter, the fastest rise this year.
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The total consumption possibilities of the United States (and of the world) have been expanded relative to the case of U.S. unilateral free trade.
The increase alone would be greater than America's total consumption today, yet China's energy use per person would still be only half that in America.
"If this year we don't have enough oil to cover the total consumption worldwide, then the price will increase to a dangerous level, " he says.
Which is to say, the Gross Domestic Product of a country is equal to its total Consumption (personal and business) plus Investments plus Government Spending plus Net Exports.
So far, says Mr Kessel, this does not seem to spell the end of paper books, since Kindle users buy just as many bound books as before, so that their total consumption of books goes up by 2.6 times.
That may not sound much of an increase, but over that period total global consumption will grow spectacularly.
We took a snapshot of overall allocations for 18 countries, measured as percentages of total individual consumption (rounded to the nearest percent).
Forbes.com took a snapshot of overall allocations for 18 countries, measured as percentages of total individual consumption (rounded to the nearest percent).
By making our homes more efficient and conserving on automotive fuel use, we could theoretically save 40 percent or more on our total energy consumption.
"My guess is that solar energy will be 40 to 70 percent of the total energy consumption, 30 to 60 years from now, " he said.
Data centers account for about 1.5% of total electricity consumption in the United States, according to a 2007 report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
According to a European target that Britain has signed up to, renewables will account for 15% of total energy consumption by 2020, up from 3% today.
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What really matters is total world consumption, the sum of all local consumptions, which is the product of local population times the local per capita consumption rate.
Environmentalists like the idea because they believe it has the potential to reduce total energy consumption and thus help to curb carbon emissions and stop global warming.
China's industrial sector accounts for 70% of total energy consumption.
Watch countries exposed to runaway food price inflation such as those with a low GDP per capita and a very high percentage of food relative to total household consumption.
James Gibbs, Frontier's chief, has no sympathy for Canadian producers that feel they're getting ripped off on the heavy crude his company buys, 50, 000 barrels a day (just under a third of its total petroleum consumption).
Between 1990 and 2010, according to data from the IEA, the share of renewables in total energy consumption has fallen slightly or remained stagnant in virtually all African countries, with the interesting exceptions of Mozambique, Kenya, and Angola.
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What this is all suggests is that the human spirit in its most daring moments has actually manifested physical attenuations of energy expenditure, reducing the tally of total energy consumption by exponential multiples undreamed of a few generations ago.
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China will "endeavor" to cut emissions of carbon dioxide -- the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change -- by "a notable margin" in coming years, Hu said, adding that China also will "vigorously develop renewable energy and nuclear energy" with the goal of increasing the share of non-fossil fuels in total energy consumption to 15 percent by 2020.
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Bioenergy is also a crucial element in the country's energy sector, supplying almost 20% of total primary energy consumption.
The estimates of total primary energy consumption are those of the EIA. For GDP figures, the EIA used data from Global Insight.
It says the proposed power station should help the UK hit its renewable-energy target of 15% of total UK energy consumption by 2020.
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U.S. consumers have already shown to be sensitive to higher prices with total motor gasoline consumption down more than 2 percent on a year-over-year basis during the second quarter.
Every three years we look ahead 30 years and we look at the total need or consumption of energy in the world as we see it at that point.
So heavy are the current energy demands of our expanding data usage that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pegged servers and data centers as responsible for nearly two percent of total national electricity consumption.
In the case of the Siberian gas pipeline project, Moscow was well aware of the inordinate West European dependency on Soviet natural gas supplies -- ultimately projected to exceed 60% of total European gas consumption -- which would have resulted from the successful completion of both strands of the twin 3, 600-mile pipelines connected to the West European gas grid.
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