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Australia and Nepal - Worlds Apart - An examination of present and possible future energy consumption patterns in Australia and Nepal.
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AUSTRALIA AND NEPAL - WORLDS APART AN EXAMINATION OF PRESENT AND POSSIBLE FUTURE ENERGY CONSUMPTION PATTERNS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEPAL Energy consumption patterns worldwide vary according to the stage of development of the country, population size, climate (geographical location of the country) and availability of energy resources. Such consumption patterns include the total amount of consumption, the ways in which the energy is used as a country and on a per capita basis, and the source of the energy. While MEDCs have an overall higher consumption than LEDCs, when LEDCs become increasingly industrialised and develop as the MEDCs did, their consumption becomes much higher because of the generally higher population base in LEDC's. Australia, an MEDC, has a high domestic consumption of 16.2GJ1 per capita per annum, whereas Nepal, an example of an LEDC, only consumes less than 1GJ2 of commercial energy (that is, energy from coal, petrol and gas - including...
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