Sentences with phrase «at current consumption rates»

The Energy Information Administration estimates that the United States has 87 years of natural gas reserves at current consumption rates.

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.

At current consumption rates, this total fossil fuel resource would last us > 300 years.

At current consumption rates, this total resource would last us several hundred years (coal: between 350 and 400 years; oil and gas: between 150 and 200 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.

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).

Fossil fuel will not last for long at the current consumption rate.

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.

At any rate, current trends are favourable for e-book consumption: the smartphone market is thriving and online retail is gaining captive audience.

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.

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.»

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.

Claiming that an «exponential» rise in solar and wind energy use will mean that wind and solar will supplant fossil fuel consumption sometime during the next 10 - 13 years (SebastianH:» «takeover» will happen in 2030 at current growth rates.

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.

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.

World petroleum supplies, at the current rate of consumption, won't last a baby born today past his / her 40th birthday.

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..

The Powder River Basin field alone contains about a thousand years supply at current rates of consumption.

[3] That is over 480 years of coal at our current rate of consumption.

Such electricity consumption may soon become unsustainable if the adoption rate of digital currencies continues to grow at its current pace.