Talk:Energy

Rick: This page suggests that a huge amount of the energy is spent on growing plants / providing food. How realistic is this? Plants take massive amount of energy to grow, and we should plan to use natural sunlight for this purpose. We may wish to turn on grow lights during a 85% reduction in light during a huge dust storm, but dust storms that block this much light are very rare.

Also, the table showing how the energy is spent has zero for industry. Why not move some of the energy spent on food production into this category?

Things early industry might do are: create plastics, transform plastics into useful items, make bricks, concentrate metal ores, refine metals, run carbonyl reactors, etc.

"Consuments"

Should a different word be used other than consuments? Possibly consumers? Personally, I've never come across the term, but I'm also no expert in energy consuption! So I'm probably not the best person to judge ;-) -- Ioneill 03:51, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Ian, yes you are perfectly right. There is no such word. I will change it to "consumers". This is from my German tongue, 'cos the equivalent singular German word is "Konsument". Thanks for the hint! -- Rfc 07:54, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Hehe, no problem, was reading it over and over and although it sounded right I couldn't work it out. German isn't really that far from English ;-) Great content by the way --Ioneill 08:25, 14 December 2007 (UTC)