Switzerland: A 2000 watt society

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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 3:21p.m.

Switzerland's largest city, Zurich, has set a radical goal to reduce the amount of energy its residents use by two thirds - becoming a 2000 watt society.

If you take all the energy being consumed on earth and divide by the number of people, it works out to about 2000 watts per person.

But how many of us are using more than our share?

Can each member of a modern Swiss family really live on the same energy it takes to power 20 light bulbs?

CBS investigates.

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07 Dec 2009 03:42p.m.

cynical wrote:

2000 watts per hour, per day, per year? Sorry, not enough information. I do know that in the UK the heating requirement is given as 60 Watts per m2 per hour, with triple glazing - in New Zealand the recommendation is 100 Watts per m2. I have achieved 40 Watts per m2 in the height of this colder winter. All this can be done without all the hype and especially finding extra ways to tax people. That is only off-putting.