Cai et al. (2008) studied five sectors of the Chinese economy (electricity, iron and steel, cement, pulp and paper, and transport).
The top sectors are a very different list under a consumption-based accounting perspective (construction, public administration (including defense, health and education), and wholesale and retail trade) than under a production-based one (electricity, iron and steel, and non-metallic minerals, such as cement).
Of course it's not just the washing machine, it's piped water, electricity, irons and so on.
Also from the first principal component, having a television had the highest factor score (0.806) followed by having electric iron (0.771), electricity (0.707), a cement wall (0.696) and generating set (0.607). Figure 2 shows the distribution of the households into WQs as well as wealth scores and associated descriptive statistics for each quintile.
Electricity brought appliances into homes, including electric irons and washing machines.
It became the Asano Cement Company, cornerstone of the Asano zaibatsu, which eventually included shipping and shipbuilding, mining, gas and electricity, oil, iron and steel, and beer brewing.
Following Heaps et al. (2009) concerning the industry sector, CO2 emissions can be further reduced through the increased use of biomass, natural gas, and increased participation of RES in electricity, the iron and steel production sector, the cement production, the chemical production, and other industrial subsectors.
In December 2007, Baird revealed in a plan that over 700 big-polluter companies, including oil and gas, pulp and paper, electricity and iron and steel companies, must cut greenhouse emissions by six percent from 2008 to 2010.
On the other hand, he saw no need to waste electricity by ironing his shirts.
Linked into the urban grid, they reproduced the aesthetics and functionality of post-colonial urban planning on an intimate scale: neat rows of identical houses with kitchen, living room and bedrooms, bathrooms with British cast-iron armatures, electricity connections and corrugated-iron roofing, small gardens and verandas complete with washing lines.
"It was always going to be a difficult debate because we are a high-carbon economy [Australia is the world's biggest exporter of black coal for electricity generation and iron ore], but it's been made much harder by the partisan debate and by shameless scaremongering about cost of living from some in politics and in business," he said.
