A bit more than 4 barrels of oil. Or about 700 liters. That is how much oil the average person uses each year globally. And it has been the same for the past 30 years.
BP recently published its annual data deluge regarding energy markets. We calculated some interesting ratios and present them in…
Many people think that a slowdown to say 4% growth in China would be unimaginable. But how about minus 4%?
By István Zsoldos and Péter Simon Vargha
It has always been a question of when, not if. China’s per capita GDP has grown almost 6 fold in the past 20 years, a compound annual…
In what does Europe beat the world, and what does America excel in? We were also inspired by the world map that went viral on the net last week: more people living inside of a circle than outside of it… We made a couple versions for the energy industry too.
The following mind-blowing map came…
How does the number of children affect revolutions and economic growth? Of demography, democracy and depression.
By István Zsoldos, Péter Simon Vargha and Diána Szőke
We tend to think about demographic processes in a very simplistic way: there are a lot of Chinese people, masses of…
If you worry about climate change and the environment, as we do, there have been two pieces of good news recently. One of them is the widely publicized super-smog in Chinese cities. The other one is less well known, but could be even more important: a study showing that black carbon (AKA soot) may…
No, it is not the EU emission trading system, or more of costly wind farm subsidies in troubled Europe. It is not a strict global climate deal, which has a close to zero chance. It is Chinese public anger and protests –not against CO2 emissions, but against local pollution, later on potentially…
