[nisten69]

This would be very cute if it was some 3rd world island country grasping at the straws to improve their quality of life...doing this.

But you're fucking Germany bro....where's your massproduced precision reactors and turbines everywhere..the planet needs work...what the f.. are you guys even doing..a rising standard of living means 10-100x more energy you know that right?

This whole attitude feels like clapping for a new garden tomato in the middle of a famine... go put some fucking tractors on the field lol but like seriously though.

[adrianN]

Standard of living has been decoupled from energy consumption for quite some time now in developed countries.

[nisten69]

Complemetely untrue. The evidence is pretty clear. There's no such thing as a low energy country with a high standard of living.

If I were to pick the #1 thing that most European are literally ignorant about is exactly this fact. Data below:

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$ui$chart$cursorMode=hand;;...

[adrianN]

That’s why I specified „developed“. Economic growth in developed countries has been decoupled from energy use since the early aughts at least.

[kragen]

That's because they've been in an energy crisis for the last 50 years, so much advancement was by improvement of efficiency. Because of the dramatic cost reductions of photovoltaic modules, that energy crisis is over now.