I am attaching a table that shows that the descendants of the inventors of the metric system are also very smart. They (the French) have avoided the expense of the time and labor the US has been "throwing into the wind." Among all industrialized nations, they alone were able to cut hydrocarbon consumption (notice the negative sign in the Growth column). Compare that wisdom with their neighbors' to the north and east - they had committed themselves to shutting down their nuclear power plants (stations).
In the table (the values are both in J/y and in W) please pardon the UNsignifican digits. I still have not been able to set my Excel to show only significant digits. Changing the redundant digits to 0s by hand is too much work for the purpose of this posting. While at this, I understand not everyone was successful in opening the link supplied earlier for the paper on renewable energy (all values in SI). Below is the link to the pdf version of it. http://energy.sigmaxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/jakuba_renewable_potential.pdf Stan Jakuba .
Bryce - z.xls
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