[3] That is over 480 years of coal
at our current rate of consumption.
World petroleum supplies,
at the current rate of consumption, won't last a baby born today past his / her 40th birthday.
At current rate of consumption, we have only 60 years left.
That is why, for example, energy has become cheaper according to various metrics — most notably, the number of hours a worker must labor in order to obtain objective amounts of energy — and even the «number of years remaining
at current rates of consumption» have risen for certain energy sources, despite their finite nature.
Firewood has a roll to play in providing an alternative energy source to petroleum, but, while it is a renewable resource, it is quite impossible to grow enough firewood to replace petroleum
at current rates of consumption.
The Powder River Basin field alone contains about a thousand years supply
at current rates of consumption.
Not exact matches
At our
current rate of manufacturing and
consumption, we risk bringing future generations into a world without clean air or water.
«Given that the maxima in the fuel -
consumption rates occurred several years prior to the onset
of the
current economic downturn, these maxima have a good chance
of being permanent peaks,» said Michael Sivak, a research professor
at UMTRI and author
of the report.
If global oil
consumption continues to rise
at the
current rate of 1.3 per cent per year, the planet's proven oil reserves
of 1.332 trillion barrels are expected to run out in 2041.
Just over half that amount has already been emitted since the beginning
of the Industrial Revolution, and
at current rates of energy
consumption, the trillionth ton will be released around 2040, according to calculations by Myles R. Allen, a scientist
at the University
of Oxford and one
of the authors
of the new report.
I know we are
at or near peak oil production, but if we can put it in these terms (max 20 years
of oil
at current consumption rates).
At its
current scale and
rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases
of production, unchecked per human
consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.
«9 Based on the IEO2006 reference case forecast for coal
consumption, and assuming that world coal
consumption would continue to increase
at a
rate of 2.0 percent per year after 2030,
current estimated recoverable world coal reserves would last for about 70 years.»
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. has 480 billion short tons
of demonstrated reserves — that's several hundred years» worth
of supply
at current consumption rates.
At current rates of growth, the IEA says that it expects that coal
consumption will rise to 4.32 billion tonnes
of oil equivalent versus 4.4 billions tonnes
of oil per year worldwide within only four years; with that trend continuing, coal would quickly overtake oil as the world's fuel source
of choice.
And in absolute values renewables will cover 100 %
of the yearly
consumption increase in 13 years
at the
current growth
rates.
I wonder how much
of that is on account
of high oil prices (the US could bring them down by drilling in the Monterey county Shale deposit, which is estimated to have 3 years
of oil for the US
at current US oil
consumption rates), ANWR, off - shore, etc..
Considering that America has 22.1 percent
of the world's proven coal reserves, the greatest
of any country and enough to last for 381 years
at current consumption rates, it is a tragedy that the U.S. can no longer build new, clean, coal - fired power stations to replace its aging fleet
of coal plants.Supercritical power plants operate
at very high temperatures and pressures, resulting in significantly greater efficiencies than older technologies.
The Energy Information Administration estimates that the United States has 87 years
of natural gas reserves
at current consumption rates.
Such electricity
consumption may soon become unsustainable if the adoption
rate of digital currencies continues to grow
at its
current pace.