Global energy consumption is enormous and has been increasing steadily over the past few years. The US Space Foundation, NASA has attempted to illustrate this by taking de-layed geographic images of the Earth during the night hours when cloud free skies have made observation of electrical light possible from space.
This method elegantly illustrates the world’s energy consumption, documenting especially the massive consumption of USA, Europe, India, Japan and China.
To illustrate how vital electricity is to our civilisation, towns along the Nile and communi-ties along the Trans-Siberian Railway can be seen from Space.
Since energy is a scarce resource, one of the future conduct regulations will be to pro-vide energy incentives for households and buildings to supplement their energy con-sumption with electricity that has been produced from alternative energy sources.