MOSCOW. (Viktor Danilov-Danilyan for RIA...
decline in the 1990s. Despite its growing economy, by 2012 Russia will by no means exceed the level of emissions in 1990, which is the KP's year of departure.The energy-saving process began in Russia in the 1990s entirely as a result of market prices. These were later supplemented by new parameters of energy efficiency. The current technologies available on the world market are of a later generation (using the monstrous Siemens-Martin double-hearth furnace with its record energy-output ratio is totally out of the question in the Russian steel industry).
But in Russia, energy use per unit of GDP is 3.1 times greater than in the European Union (before the admission of new members). Some 25%-30% can be chalked up to the cold climate, but by and large we continue heating the world around us, wasting a lot of energy. The power industry uses hydrocarbons to generate 75% of its energy, and the higher the energy efficiency, the lower the energy intensity, and, hence,
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