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Is triple glazing still not a thing in most places? It's become pretty much standard here in Romania in everything but the cheapest windows.
However, there is still a significant amount of single-glazed properties in poorer areas or in listed historical buildings.
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The annual carbon budget of each person is about 3 tons per person. Thats the amount planet's biosphere can process divided by number of peoplle.
> annual carbon budget of each person is about 3 tons per person To put that stat in perspective, the average carbon emmisions per person [0]: Qatar is almost 40 tonnes pp United States, Canada, Australia is about 15 tonnes pp Switzerland, France, Italy, under 5 tonnes pp South Sudan is about 0.13 tonnes. It really puts in perspective how much wasteful carbon reduction and lifestyle changes are needed for us to have…
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> annual carbon budget of each person is about 3 tons per person To put that stat in perspective, the average carbon emmisions per person [0]: Qatar is almost 40 tonnes pp United States, Canada, Australia is about 15 tonnes pp Switzerland, France, Italy, under 5 tonnes pp South Sudan is about 0.13 tonnes. It really puts in perspective how much wasteful carbon reduction and lifestyle changes are needed for us to have…
Remember that these figures include indirect emissions such as the ones made by the government on your behalf to maintain, for example, carbon expensive infrastructure. The roads are a big part of that in the US. American suburban car dependency needs to die.
They may be saving energy, but 17.2°C average temperature indoors is freezing.
I sit all day in front of the computer in something like that. Just use 60 s to put on two sweaters and woolen underwear and you will save money/the world. It's really weird to heat the whole house just to heat yourself.
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The annual carbon budget of each person is about 3 tons per person. Thats the amount planet's biosphere can process divided by number of peoplle.
> annual carbon budget of each person is about 3 tons per person To put that stat in perspective, the average carbon emmisions per person [0]: Qatar is almost 40 tonnes pp United States, Canada, Australia is about 15 tonnes pp Switzerland, France, Italy, under 5 tonnes pp South Sudan is about 0.13 tonnes. It really puts in perspective how much wasteful carbon reduction and lifestyle changes are needed for us to have…
i.e it's not that common French is more carbon economical than a Canadian - she just happen to have been born in a place with established nuclear power generation.
In other words - this stat means nothing.
They may be saving energy, but 17.2°C average temperature indoors is freezing.
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I don’t know, I’m not a native English speaker. I meant that: “to gradually reduce or write off the cost or value of (something, such as an asset)”
Amortize is more than that imho. It’s about making a margin too.
That spreading may come with its own costs, like interest, but that is not an essential component of amortization.
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Agreed, not sure what jb1991 refers to as colder climates. Countries with colder climates normally have decent indoor temperatures during winter. In Norway for example, you would be considered crazy to have anything less than 21-22C indoors.
Where's your source? I bet there's people who keep it at 22 others at 25 and yet others at 16 in Norway.
https://lawline.se/answers/hur-kallt-far-det-vara-i-hyreslag...
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> annual carbon budget of each person is about 3 tons per person To put that stat in perspective, the average carbon emmisions per person [0]: Qatar is almost 40 tonnes pp United States, Canada, Australia is about 15 tonnes pp Switzerland, France, Italy, under 5 tonnes pp South Sudan is about 0.13 tonnes. It really puts in perspective how much wasteful carbon reduction and lifestyle changes are needed for us to have…
France is currently around 11 tonnes CO2e per capita, not 5 https://www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/sites... and budget is 2 tonnes (not 3) https://datagir.ademe.fr/blog/budget-empreinte-carbone-c-est...
The paper you link includes CO2 'equivalent' emissions, i.e. they are including NOx from diesel engines and Methane from oil/gas extraction and calculating some CO2 equivalent volume. Whereas the source I referenced is only including CO2 emissions.
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> annual carbon budget of each person is about 3 tons per person To put that stat in perspective, the average carbon emmisions per person [0]: Qatar is almost 40 tonnes pp United States, Canada, Australia is about 15 tonnes pp Switzerland, France, Italy, under 5 tonnes pp South Sudan is about 0.13 tonnes. It really puts in perspective how much wasteful carbon reduction and lifestyle changes are needed for us to have…
Just to state the obvious: this is a country's Gton CO2 / pop. i.e it's not that common French is more carbon economical than a Canadian - she just happen to have been born in a place with established nuclear power generation. In other words - this stat means nothing.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
The trend is almost binomial, many of these countries have marginal nuclear use.