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Interesting. Any actual stats in those articles?
How many new 2-story+ residential, commercial and industrial projects come online annually ; how many mobile phones and other charging devices + supercomputers on the grid.
No numbers in the articles I read, and I didn't find either again, but these two are probably better with some specifics. No doubt our energy use is constantly increasing - more devices and more people. I really think we were lured into electrical energy complacency over the past few decades through a combination of factors. We made gains in energy conservation in homes and factories - lighting, less heat or cooling loss, more efficient appliances, etc. We also shuttered a lot of energy intensive manufacturing during the same period. Now that the easy part is past we are probably in the phase where power demands will escalate - newer products won't necessarily be any or much more efficient, hopefully some industry will return, and there will be more of us; and worse there's the drive to close the type of power plants that have made it all work without a real workable plan to replace them or grid improvement to carry the load.
What I though basically was interesting in the articles I mentioned was that it was the first rumblings that things aren't all they seem. That's usually a first stage before the more serious stuff starts coming out, and before the following stage when "we've got to fix this" stuff starts hitting the news daily.
Tire Pollution Is On Regulators’ Minds
Car Tires Are Set To Become Much More Expensive As Producers Are Forced To Limit Pollution
Tire-makers under pressure as too much rubber pollution hits the road - Autoblog