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Re:Galactic-Scale Energy by ars on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @03:40AM (#2840191)
I would love to see a graph of energy usage per capita.
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Re:Galactic-Scale Energy by ars on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @04:19AM (#2840266)
Assuming I didn't mess up: http://imgur.com/To9LA

Interestingly the energy per capita did not change starting at around 1970. Wonder if it's related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis

I also wonder what happened between 1740 and 1875.

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Re:Galactic-Scale Energy by LogicX on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @05:00AM (#2840344)
And the other side of the equation: 1973: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Roe_vs_wade

See Also: Crime charts.

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Re:Galactic-Scale Energy by gjm11 on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @07:32AM (#2840682)
You think the legality of abortion in the USA made a big difference to worldwide energy consumption per capita? Why?
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Re:Galactic-Scale Energy by dredmorbius on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @04:27AM (#2840282)
Something like this, perhaps?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=national+energy+consump...

(I'm still getting the hang of Wolfram|Alpha, but it's excellent for questions such as this).

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