
111Economics of Energy Generation and Conservation Systems
money that is worth less than 30 years earlier. This is a good illustration of the destruc-
tive effects of inflationary economic system. All producers, whether producing dairy
products or ingots of aluminum, must continuously expand their production, and thus
their energy and resource consumption, in order to even maintain a particular level of
income in real terms.
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TABLE 2.15 (continued)
Embedded Energy in Various Materials and Commodities
Commodity
1977 Values 1977 Values Adjusted 2008 Values
Energy Intensity
(Btu/$)
Energy Intensity
(kWh/$)
Energy Intensity ...