There are an amazing sixty-four countries that rely on fossil fuel for 100% of their nation’s power generation. I’m not going to bore you with all the names, or irrelevant things like “sources”. Let’s just suffice to say that it doesn’t seem like those nations are very environmentally friendly.
Most of the countries are Middle Eastern or island nations where I guess there are not a lot of alternatives. But a few names stick out as countries that should just know better: Hong Kong, Singapore, & Macau. And yes I know that all three of those countries are ‘island nations’ but still, they’re rich, they should build a windmill or something!
Moving a little bit further down statistically some interesting nations appear as fossil fuel stalwarts. Australia, Greece, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, and Thailand all rely on fossil fuel based energy for more than 85% of their electrical needs.
Taking a contrarian stance there are seven nations which don’t use fossil fuel based power generation in their country at all. Also nations like Brazil, France, Norway, Sweden, & Switzerland receive less than 10% of their power from fossil fuels.
Curious about the United States? America’s standing is at 71.4% which is 6% above the weighted average for the world.
Couple of fun facts and I’m out:
- 1 litre of regular gasoline is the time-rendered result of about 23.5 metric tons of ancient organic material deposited on the ocean floor.
- The total fossil fuel used in the year 1997 is the result of 422 years of all plant matter that grew on the entire surface and in all the oceans of the ancient earth.
PS: If you don’t get the headline, the purpose of all life is to die, turn into fuel, thereby allowing me to keep my house warm. So you guys get on that and in several hundred million years, I will use that stuff.
