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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (374433)3/18/2008 3:41:33 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1577813
 
For the very general - Look at real dollars of GDP per energy used.

Let's not. Everytime you want to make an unfavorable comparison you default to compared with GDP.

I'm not comparing anything to the GDP, this case isn't an example of percentage of GDP. I'm using the GDP as a measurement of the wealth produced by our economy. If you don't like GDP, I can use GNP, or some measure of national income. Any one you pick the fact is we get more real dollars per amount of energy used.

Let's look at real use of a declining asset that we are continually increasing our imports, while competitive countries are decreasing their imports.

You can of course look at that, but it isn't a measurement of energy efficiency. It doesn't say anything about the strides we have made in increasing energy efficiency.

You can measure efficiency in terms of real dollars per unit of energy input, or in terms of word produced per unit of energy input (if your using the energy to move things), or in other ways. By almost any of them we have improved energy efficiency. By many of them we have made very strong improvements.

Size, weight and power may be an important metric to you, but they certainly are not an important economic etric.

We produce more real dollars per unit of energy input. Thats the best overall economic/financial measurement of energy efficiency.

The point about size weight and power per unit of energy used is a measure of physical energy efficiency. Which has also improved.
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