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Sunday, June 15, 2008

S.N.E.K. - $s Needed for Each Kilowatt-hour

I thought if I am going to write on this measure I should come up with an acronym. I admit to being an old Judge Dredd fan, where they have used Snek as a swear word for decades. Lets consider it retroactively adding a bit of economics to the governance of Mega-City One

CONTINUING THE LIST
STATE----------GDP----ELECTRICITY---SNEK
26 Thailand $ 519--------118--------$4.39
27 South Africa $ 467----241--------$1.94
28 Pakistan $ 410---------67--------$6.11
29 Egypt $ 404------------84--------$4.81
30 Belgium $ 376----------83--------$4.53
31 Malaysia $ 357---------79--------$4.51
32 Sweden $ 335----------134--------$2.50
33 Venezuela $ 335--------73--------$4.59
34 Greece $ 325-----------54--------$6.02
35 Ukraine $ 320---------182--------$1.76
36 Colombia $ 320---------39--------$8.21
37 Austria $ 318----------60--------$5.30
38 Switzerland $ 300------58--------$5.17
39 Philippines $ 300------49--------$6.12
40 Hong Kong $ 292--------40--------$7.30
41 Nigeria $ 292----------17-------$17.18
42 Czech Republic $ 249---60--------$4.15
43 Norway $ 247----------114--------$2.17
44 Romania $ 246----------59--------$4.17
45 Chile $ 231------------48--------$4.81
46 Portugal $ 231---------49--------$4.71
47 Singapore $ 228--------36--------$6.33
48 Algeria $ 225----------28--------$8.03
49 Vietnam $ 221----------51--------$4.33
50 Peru $219--------------23--------$9.50
51 Bangladesh $ 207-------19-------$10.89
52 Denmark $ 204----------34--------$6.00
53 Hungary $ 191----------36--------$5.33
54 Ireland $ 186----------24--------$7.75
55 Israel $ 186-----------43--------$4.33
56 Finland $ 186----------88--------$2.11
57 Kazakhstan $ 168-------76--------$2.21
58 United Arab Emirates $ 168---53--$3.17
59 Kuwait $ 130-----------36--------$3.61
60 Morocco $ 125----------21--------$5.92
61 New Zealand $ 118------37--------$3.19
62 Slovakia $ 110---------25--------$4.40
63 Belarus $ 105----------29--------$3.62
64 Iraq $ 102-------------36--------$2.83
65 Ecuador $ 99------------9-------$11.00
66 Angola $ 91-------------2-------$45.50
67 Burma $ 91--------------4-------$22.75
68 Syria $ 87-------------34--------$2.56
69 Bulgaria $ 86----------37--------$3.32
70 Sri Lanka $ 81----------7-------$11.57
71 Sudan $ 81--------------3-------$27.00
72 Puerto Rico $ 77-------23--------$3.35
73 Serbia $ 77 not given
74 Tunisia $ 77-----------11--------$7.00
75 Libya $75--------------18--------$4.16

Which I think is as far as it is useful to go. Once again we see the developed countries very largely lying in the $5.40-$2.40 range. Ukraine Norway & Finland lying below - Finland is building nuclear, Norway has lots of hydro & much GDP comes from oil & Ukraine is still benefiting from cheap Russian gas. Greece, Hong Kong, Singapore, Denmark & Ireland, among developed countries score above - 2 of those are city states with limited land for generators & possibley use less per capita because of the heat island effect in urban living; Denmark has made a big thing politically of windmills & most of its power seems to come from Norwegian & Swedish hydro: Ireland has a problem because it also has spent a lot on windmills with nothing to show for it & also gets a lot of power from Hunterston in Scotland, where we are already facing blackouts after it closes.

We also see a lot of really poor countries where I assume electricity is limited to cities on good days. Insofar as they depend on subsistence farming they can do without so much of it & insofar as they do without much electricity they are going to depend on subsistence farming.

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Interesting data.

Where do you obtain the GDP and kw/hr data from?
 
From the CIA factbook. See the links provided on the previous day's post which covered the first 25 economies.
 
Thanks! What I'd love to do is grab this data and stuff it into a database. Which is easy enough, I just need to sit down for a few hours and make it happen.

This SNEK comparison jumped at me

US - 3.626834381551
EU - 5.099290780142

Y'all have a higher SNEK than we do. Hmm...
 
Yes & as with golf you want a low score since it gives you more potential to grow. Even though the US is anti-nuclear it is not as bad as the EU & it is this Ludditism that is stopping economic growth. Meanwhile look at China's snek. That place is now producing more electricity than the whole EU together & it is working for them.
 
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