Sentences with phrase «current consumption levels»

The question I asked when I first saw the 400 billion barrel figure was «how many years at current consumption levels will this oil last?».

As it stands, fossil fuels, primarily coal and oil, supply around 80 percent of the world's energy needs, and known reserves of coal alone could power the world at current consumption levels for several centuries.

This «fraccing», combined with horizontal drilling, produced the natural gas boom that has transformed North America's energy landscape, increasing natural gas reserves to a level high enough to supply current consumption levels for more than 100 years.

Achieving any really significant percentage of renewable energy contribution to current consumption levels appears to be next to impossible.

Each year, roughly 2.4 trillion cubic feet (68 billion cubic meters) of natural gas are used each year, according to the Energy Information Administration — a more than 30 - year supply at current consumption levels.

«Total recoverable reserves of coal around the world are estimated at 1,001 billion tons — enough to last approximately 180 years at current consumption levels»

Footnote * A Twitter follower, @JayWacker, noted that 84 trillion cubic feet is about three years» supply for the United States at current consumption levels.

Again, technologically possible is different that politically or financially possible — and doesn't really take into account distribution issues (not every place is as ideally suited for solar power as California and Texas, both singled out in the report)-- but even a small percentage of reaching this technologically potential would allow the US to have carbon - free power at current consumption levels, even allowing a generous expansion of electricity usage.

In October 2012, the European Commission proposed to amend this legislation in reaction to evidence showing the climate impact of some biofuels could be worse for the climate than using fossil fuels, by introducing a 5 % limit for food based biofuels (set at current consumption levels).

Finally, the Council approved a cap at 7 % (current consumption levels) two years later at the first reading, closing the biofuel chapter almost after a decade.

And the 50 per cent have - nots would be much better off if they could advance to the current consumption levels of the global middle class.