life - Power cuts loom as heat continues

The temperature in Shanghai is acceptable again, friends tell me, but the ongoing heat wave is causing many energy problems, worse than last year. Like mostly the booming economy is being blamed, but the inefficient energy use in China is at least equally to blame. A few years ago the story was that to produce one US dollar worth of product, China needed about eight times the energy the US would need. I have seen no indication that this ratio really has changed.