NORTH KOREA ENERGY RESOURCES

By NIGRITIAN CHIEF OF THE FREE WORLD

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Energy Resources

• Agricultural Age Energy Sources:

  Renewable energy sources: solar, wind, water, humans/slavery, animals, etc.

• Industrial Age Energy Sources:

  Non-renewable, fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, coal) and nuclear fission (uranium and plutonium fuels). These fuels pollute more, and once extracted from the earth, they are gone.

• Information Age Energy Sources:

  Eventual return (once fossil fuels are exhausted) to renewable energy sources (solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, ocean thermal, and biomass)--as in agricultural age, but using more sophisticated technologies to tap these energy sources; also nuclear fusion (from fusing of hydrogen atoms in water) once the technology is perfected in future; lag in transition to these alternative energy sources--perhaps into next age.

Information/Data on North Korea Energy Sources

Conclusions on North Korean Industrial Age Energy Sources): North Koera emphasis on nuclear energy; power plants now count for approximately 48 percent of the nation's electricity output. Oil, bituminous coal, liqufied Nature gas, and hydroelectric power plants now account for 17.6, 16.2, 8.9, and 6 percent of total output, respectively, with the remaining 2.3 percent consisting of anrhracite coal and other miscellaneous sources. by the 2001 the government plans to have a power generation mix of 45 percent nuclear, 32 percent bituminous coal, 12 percent liquifed nature gas, 8 percent oil, 2 percent hydroelectric, and 1 percent anthracite coal and others.

Additional Online Sources on North Korea Energy

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Traditional Bibliographic Sources on North Korea Energy

• The Europa World Year Book 1995 Volume II K-Z 36 edition
• CULTURGRAM '96 North Korea Source
• Moon-Ho Song, Doing Business In Korea. Published by Price Waterhouse