{"id":5364,"date":"2010-04-27T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5364"},"modified":"2010-04-27T03:00:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T08:00:38","slug":"whos-got-the-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5364","title":{"rendered":"Who&#039;s Got the Juice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compare the <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bc\/Population_density.png\">population density of the world<\/a>, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrosurf.com\/anpcn\/pollution\/astronomie\/atlas\/images\/mondo_ridotto0p25.png\">nighttime image<\/a>, which should be some kind of proxy of electric power availability.<\/p>\n<p>In most places, there is a reasonable correlation with high population density giving you bright lights.  In some places, like the US, even low population density is noticeably lit up.  Now take a peek at Nepal and Bangladesh, just above India.  That&#8217;s scary to me; all those people living in close proximity without access to modern &#8220;conveniences.&#8221;  Scary in a different way is central China, because one might suspect that electrification is going to be expanding there soon, with all the implications to carbon being dumped into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare the population density of the world, with the nighttime image, which should be some kind of proxy of electric power availability. In most places, there is a reasonable correlation with high population density giving you bright lights. In some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5364\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}