Roger Bezdek, energy analyst, Management Information Services, sent a short note referring to a presentation he gave in 2008 positing a peak in
total fossil fuel production and resulting forecast for carbon dioxide concentrations:
The supply and demand model was used to obtain future predictions for individual and
total fossil fuel productions for a number of different scenarios, including CASE 1, CASE 2 and CASE 3 and STATIC, DYNAMIC and INDEPENDENTLY DYNAMIC supply and demand interaction options.
Not exact matches
By employing
fossil fuels to replace human labor, on the one hand, and by having each person perform limited repetitive operations, on the other,
total production could be greatly increased.
The carbon majors are defined as
fossil fuel production entities and cement manufacturers that produced more than ≥ 8 million tonnes carbon per year (MtC / y), while the
total human attribution case refers to all relevant human activities that have been measured and used in climate assessment model scenarios that influence climate change.
But as Kris notes, any increase in
production leads to an increase in material use, and an increase in
total energy consumption, mostly
fossil fuels.
In recent years, the
total cost of
fossil -
fuel consumption subsidies worldwide has ranged from $ 480 billion to $ 630 billion per year, plus more than $ 100 billion spent every year in
production subsidies.
A report published in September by Climate Action Network Europe and ODI identified 87 subsidies and support measures and estimated the
total support to
fossil fuel production, including through fiscal support and public finance, was nearly EUR 36 billion a year between 2014 and 2016.
Total fossil fuel demand was calculated globally, based on world population and per capita demand; while
production was calculated on a country by - country basis and summed to obtain global
production.
It was found that the resultant Hubbert curves were generally in good agreement with
total fossil fuel, coal and natural gas
production predictions.
I am imagining a future agreement that is more successful in reducing the rate of
fossil -
fuel consumption than the present Kyoto Agreement, but that does not change the
total remaining
production.
Australian
fossil fuel production has a particularly high exposure to coal reserves, which make up 51GtCO2 of this
total.
Does your model fit not only Mauna Loa but Law Dome as well using as input only
total annual emissions of CO2 from
fossil fuel, cement
production and land use changes?
While
total output from low carbon technologies, such as hydro, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and nuclear power, has continued to grow, their share of global primary energy supply has remained relatively constant;
fossil fuels have maintained their dominance and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) has yet to be applied to electricity
production at scale.
The carbon majors are defined as
fossil fuel production entities and cement manufacturers that produced more than ≥ 8 million tonnes carbon per year (MtC / y), while the
total human attribution case refers to all relevant human activities that have been measured and used in climate assessment model scenarios that influence climate change.
The red numbers and arrows show the additional fluxes caused by human activities averaged over 2000 - 2009, which include emissions due to the burning of
fossil fuels, cement
production and land use change (in
total about 9 PgC / year).
There are more emissions from the
total Corn Ethanol
production sequence and use as an alternative and additive to
fossil fuels than if ordinary
fossil originated
fuels were just used to do the job.
A new way of globally working together could actually significantly increase the
total energy obtained from
fossil fuel burning by most rapidly shutting down the highest impacting activities per unit of final user obtained energy (including all impacts, not just the
production of excess CO2).
Most food
production is
fossil fuel based, so get ready for a
total world food supply collapse... it is only a matter of time.
Growth in
total energy
production has been propelled by growth in
fossil fuel production.
Total energy
production per capita resumed increasing after 2000 only because of rapidly growing
fossil fuel production (which accounted for 98 per cent of the per capita increase for 2000 — 2005).