Sentences with phrase «current consumption rates»

Existing estimates, based on 30 year old data, place it perhaps a three year supply of oil and two years of natural gas 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).

Based on current consumption rates, an extra # 140 million will have to be spent on replenishing munitions, he added.

Current consumption rates are driving poor health and environmental devastation; there's a lot to be gained by cutting back.

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.

According to estimates, today's natural gas supplies could meet America's needs for 100 years, based on the current consumption rate.

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.

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

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

Richard Garstang, a water expert with the World Wildlife Fund and a participant in a study of Pakistan's water situation, said in 2001 that «within 15 years Quetta will run out of water if the current consumption rate continues.»