Michael,

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:44:52 +0100, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:

> >> US total consumption: 100 P BTU/year, or 350 GJ/person/year
> >> Germany total consumption: 14 P BTU/year, or 200 GJ/person/year
> >
> >Errr... some problem with the arithmetic here, I'm afaid! 
> >
> >If 100 P BTU = 350 GJ (and I haven't worked it out) then 14 P 
> >BTU must be 49 GJ.
> 
> 
> Howard,
> 
> I assumed that the P BTU figure is the total energy consumption for the entire country and the number in GJ 
is per person.  As the population of the US and Germany are considerably different this is where the 
discrepancy you have noted arises.

Ugh!  I didn't notice the difference in dimensions (the /person part) when I read this - sorry!  That being 
the case, I'm rather surprised the US per person figure is only 1.75 of the German one.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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