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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-689-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-689-2015
Research article
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13 Oct 2015
Research article |  | 13 Oct 2015

Resource acquisition, distribution and end-use efficiencies and the growth of industrial society

A. J. Jarvis, S. J. Jarvis, and C. N. Hewitt

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This paper uses observations of global and national energy use to attempt to show that the growth in energy use over the last 160 years can be related to the distribution constraints imposed by the networks that link environmentally derived resources to points of end use. Having accounted for the distribution efficiency of this global-scale network, we speculate that the observed long-run return rate on energy of ~2.4%/yr requires regulated deployment of acquisition and end use efficiencies.
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