2000 Watt Society

[Mark Siddall]

Towards the 2000 Watt Society. A thesis: -

http://eem.web.psi.ch/Publications/Dissertations/Schulz_thesis.pdf

Mark

[Paul Marriott]

I didn't quite understand what they meant by "2000W". A watt is a rate of doing work - i.e. 2000 Joules per second. 2000W could mean 48kwh - or 17520kwh per year - that would be a rather high usage wouldn't it? At least for the UK. My annual average usage in Montreal is around 19,000kwh for everything, heat, light and some of the hot water. But in a UK context, that would be rather high wouldn't it? And that 19Mwh I use is for two people - so individually we're closer to 1100W. Of course, this figure is only for the house and doesn't include transport.

Anyone have any idea what is really being postulated? I don't want to read the whole thesis if there is a one line summary that makes sense (I didn't see one from the pieces I read).

Paul in Montreal.

[Mark Siddall]

I undestand that it is 2000W per annum. Like most how most of the world currently survives.

Mark

[Paul Marriott]

I undestand that it is 2000W per annum. Like most how most of the world currently survives.

Mark, it can't be per annum - the thesis says something about North Americans using 17000W - even that would only be 1.11 kwh per day. 2000W per annum is 0.13 kwh per day - or only about two 20 W bulbs on for about 6 hours. Not sure where heating and hot water would come out of that. Perhaps I will have to read the whole thing after all!

Paul.

[Mark Siddall]

Referring to the last PH Conference Proceedings the 2000W society is 2000W per person (17,500kWh/a primary energy which is slightly above the global average) though because of global warming only 500W can come from fossil fuels. It shouldbe noted that this is all energy for sustenance, survival, and transport not for buildings alone.

The PH Proceedings note that the IPCC recommends that 0.32t CO2e be allocated for buildings in 2050.

Mark

[2000W]

There's a summary of the topic on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000-watt_society

[Mark Siddall]

http://www.novatlantis.ch/pdf/leichterleben_eng.pdf

Mark

[Andy Simmonds]

Mark
that link you posted is broken - what was it? I mean Watt was it?