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Where is Energy Going?
This article appeared in the magazine
The Industrial Physicist,
published by the American Institute of Physics,
in the February 2000 issue.
The essay had appeared in Italian in the special millennial edition of
the Italian financial newspaper, Il Sole/24 Ore, on 17 November 1999;
also in Italian as Benvenuti nel millennio nucleare, pp.163-168 in
Duemila: Verso una societa aperta, M. Moussanet, ed., Il Sole 24 Ore,
Milano, 2000.
Citation: The Industrial Physicist 6(1): 16-19, 2000 (February).
PDF version: where.pdf
There was an error in the printed version of Figure 3. Both the figure labeling
and caption are wrong. The error has been corrected in the PDF version here and on
The Industrial Physicist web site.
Figure
3 should read:
Figure 3. When total world per capita energy consumption (tons coal
equivalent) is dissected into a succession of logistic curves,
normalized on a scale that renders each S-shaped logistic pulse into a
straight line, energy history is a succession of growth pulses evolving
around the lead energy commodity of the era. In each era, consumption
triples. "F" is the fraction of market share.
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