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To: Sam who wrote (188326)	5/5/2012 11:02:31 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541763

Let's see how they feel about this after a few black outs.

To: Sam who wrote (188326)

5/6/2012 10:21:15 AM

From: Wharf Rat

Respond to of 541763

Somebody did some number crunching on the Oil Drum..

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On the story about the shutting down of the last operating nuclear plant in Japan, I decided to do a little digging around the net to compare Japan and Germany. I looked at land area, electricity consumption, installed capacity of solar PV and installed wind power capacity. I've excerpted data from four Wikipedia pages and have posted four tables. Please forgive any formatting problems with the tables. It's my first stab at formating tables wirh HTML and boy, is it tedious!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_area

Rank Country Total in km² Land in km² Water in km² % water

62	Japan	377,930	364,485	13,430	3.55
63	Germany	357,114	348,672	8,350	2.3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricity_consumption

Rank Country Electricity consumption (MW·h/yr) Year of Data Source Population As of Average power per capita (kilowatt hours per person)

1	China	4,603,700,000	2011	CIA	1,347,350,000	2011	389
2	United States	3,741,000,000	2009	CIA	312,884,000	2011	1363
3	India	905,974,000	2010	NIC	1,210,193,422	2011	107
4	Japan	859,700,000	2011	CIA	127,960,000	2011	766
5	Russia	857,600,000	2008	CIA	142,856,536	2010	783
6	Canada	549,500,000	2008	CIA	34,721,000	2012	1804
7	Germany	544,500,000	2008	CIA	81,799,600	2010	759

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

Country Total 2010 Total 2011

Germany	17,320	24,700
Spain	3,892	4,200
Japan	3,617	4,700
Italy	3,502	12,500

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country

# Nation 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

1	China	1,266	2,599	5,912	12,210	25,104	44,733	62,733
2	United States	9,149	11,603	16,819	25,170	35,159	40,200	46,919
3	Germany	18,428	20,622	22,247	23,903	25,777	27,214	29,060
4	Spain	10,028	11,630	15,145	16,740	19,149	20,676	21,674
5	India	4,430	6,270	7,850	9,587	10,925	13,064	16,084
13	Japan	1,040	1,309	1,528	1,880	2,056	2,304	2,501

Some interesting facts:
Germany has more than a third of the world's total installed capacity of PV
Germany and Italy combined have more than a half of the world's total PV
Between 2009 and 2011 China installed more than the total the total existing capacity installed up to 2009 of the former wind power leader, the US.