Sentences with phrase «recoverable energy»

Studies by MIT, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Google show that there is enough recoverable energy in the hot rock of the western U.S. to supply a large portion of our total power consumption.

@Peter Lang: In case you didn't know it, a golf - ball sized volume of uranium contains sufficient recoverable energy to provide all of a human's energy use for their whole life

A piece of uranium, the sixe of golf - ball, when used in a breeder reactor contains enough recoverable energy to provide all the energy requirements for a person for their whole life at the rate the average American uses energy.

They are not merely unsustainable in the sense that one day the sun — which drives all renewable sources — will collapse, they are also unsustainable because continued and increasing dependence on this form of energy itself can not be sustained against growing numbers of people — there is only a limited amount of recoverable energy entering the system at any time.

Not exact matches

The U.S. Department of Energy estimated «technically recoverable» shale oil resources of 345 billion barrels in 42 countries it surveyed, or 10 percent of global crude supplies.

Adam Sieminski, head of the department's Energy Information Administration, said: «Today's report indicates a significant potential for international shale oil and shale gas, though the extent to which technically recoverable shale resources will prove to be economically recoverable is not yet clear.»

This past April, the United States Energy Information Agency released an estimate that fracking has effectively increased the volume of recoverable gas in the world six times over, to the point where it could satisfy current demand for 250 years — and that isn't counting a number of countries including Russia where the necessary geological data were unavailable.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Wyoming has three times as much recoverable reserves at producing mines as West Virginia and about twice as much as West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio combined.

Last month, Oslo - based Rystad Energy shared a report that shows the U.S. as now having the world's largest reserve of recoverable oil, with 264 billion barrels in existing fields, unconventional shale and as - yet undiscovered areas.

In its 2012 energy outlook, EIA slashed its estimate of unproved technically recoverable shale gas nearly in half to 482 trillion cubic feet, still a 20 - year supply based on today's U.S. consumption.

Estimates of reserves (profitable to extract at current prices) and resources (potentially recoverable with advanced technology and / or at higher prices) are the mean of estimates of Energy Information Administration (EIA)[7], German Advisory Council (GAC)[8], and Global Energy Assessment (GEA)[9].

If we don't retain some fossil energy in readily recoverable reserves, then we'll have to find a decent way to store some excess solar energy along the way.

I understand that large estimates of recoverable fossil fuels are central to making a case for the risks of burning those fuels, but the longer term risk, if we manage to survive burning everything we've got in the ground, is taking a path that is completely dependent on those fuel sources and finding ourselves living on a baked planet with no energy to do anything about it.

The National Energy Technology Laboratory «EOR Primer» states that «somewhere around 85 billion barrels of oil are recoverable using CO2 EOR, which currently is responsible for about 4 percent of U.S. oil production, displaying a long - term growth trend that stands in stark contrast to the long - term decline trend for U.S. oil production overall.

But before doing so, pay attention to this very important note: solar energy potential and energy potential shown for the other renewable energy resources is annual potential, while the energy potential shown for the fossil fuel resources is total recoverable reserves.

Which means McConnell «should have said there are billions of barrels of recoverable oil across the country, and Michigan specifically potentially has approximately 500 million barrels,» according to a DOE official contacted by Midwest Energy News.

The U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) reports that over 1,300 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable shale and tight natural gas and 89 billion barrels 9 of technically recoverable shale oil resources currently exist in discovered shale and tight sandstone plays.

Cambridge Energy Research Associates estimate that the total recoverable oil resources in place are 3.74 trillion bbl (including non-conventional sources such as shale).

Comparison of the 2011 and 2013 reports ARI report coverage 2011 Report 2013 Report Number of countries 32 41 Number of basins 48 95 Number of formations 69 137 Technically recoverable resources, including U.S. Shale gas (trillion cubic feet) 6,622 7,299 Shale / tight oil (billion barrels) 32 345 Note: The 2011 report did not include shale oil; however, the Annual Energy Outlook 2011 did (for only the U.S.) and is included here for completeness.

We are challenged by the positioning of goals such as «100 % of plastics recycled or recoverable by 2030» (American Chemistry Council, 2018) when waste - to - energy technologies are considered «recovery» strategies.

Estimates of reserves (profitable to extract at current prices) and resources (potentially recoverable with advanced technology and / or at higher prices) are the mean of estimates of Energy Information Administration (EIA)[7], German Advisory Council (GAC)[8], and Global Energy Assessment (GEA)[9].

The discovery that the world is awash in hundreds of years of recoverable fuels is a game - changer, given the strong correlation between energy use per capita and life expectancy.

In its 2009 World Energy Outlook, IEA estimated recoverable coal at «1 trillion short tons [= 910 Gt] or «150 years of production».

Quite a bit of the energy put in is recoverable as hot charcoal can be passed through a heat exchanging system to get staem for electricity.

ENERGY OVERVIEW Energy Minister: Ernesto Martens Rebolledo Head of PEMEX: Raul Munoz Leos Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 12.6 billion barrels (see Reserves and Production) Oil Production (2002E): 3.6 million barrels per day (bbl / d), of which 3.18 million bbl / d was crude Oil Consumption (2002E): 1.93 million bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2002E): 1.68 million bbl / d Crude Oil Refining Capacity (1 / 1 / 03E): 1.7 million bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 8.8 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)(see Reserves and Production) Natural Gas Production (2000E): 1.33 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.38 Tcf Recoverable Coal Reserves (2000E): 1.3 billion short tons Coal Production (2000E): 10.86 million short tons Coal Consumption (2000E): 13.41 million short tons Net Coal Imports (2000E): 2.55 million short tons Electric Generation Capacity (2000E): 38.9 million kilowatts Net Electricity Generation (2000E): 194.37 billion kilowatthours (bkwh); 74 % thermal, 18 % hydro, 5 % nuclear, 3 % other Net Electricity Consumption (2000E): 182.8 bkwh Net Electricity Imports (2000E): 2.0ENERGY OVERVIEW Energy Minister: Ernesto Martens Rebolledo Head of PEMEX: Raul Munoz Leos Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 12.6 billion barrels (see Reserves and Production) Oil Production (2002E): 3.6 million barrels per day (bbl / d), of which 3.18 million bbl / d was crude Oil Consumption (2002E): 1.93 million bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2002E): 1.68 million bbl / d Crude Oil Refining Capacity (1 / 1 / 03E): 1.7 million bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 8.8 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)(see Reserves and Production) Natural Gas Production (2000E): 1.33 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.38 Tcf Recoverable Coal Reserves (2000E): 1.3 billion short tons Coal Production (2000E): 10.86 million short tons Coal Consumption (2000E): 13.41 million short tons Net Coal Imports (2000E): 2.55 million short tons Electric Generation Capacity (2000E): 38.9 million kilowatts Net Electricity Generation (2000E): 194.37 billion kilowatthours (bkwh); 74 % thermal, 18 % hydro, 5 % nuclear, 3 % other Net Electricity Consumption (2000E): 182.8 bkwh Net Electricity Imports (2000E): 2.0Energy Minister: Ernesto Martens Rebolledo Head of PEMEX: Raul Munoz Leos Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 12.6 billion barrels (see Reserves and Production) Oil Production (2002E): 3.6 million barrels per day (bbl / d), of which 3.18 million bbl / d was crude Oil Consumption (2002E): 1.93 million bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2002E): 1.68 million bbl / d Crude Oil Refining Capacity (1 / 1 / 03E): 1.7 million bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 8.8 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)(see Reserves and Production) Natural Gas Production (2000E): 1.33 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.38 Tcf Recoverable Coal Reserves (2000E): 1.3 billion short tons Coal Production (2000E): 10.86 million short tons Coal Consumption (2000E): 13.41 million short tons Net Coal Imports (2000E): 2.55 million short tons Electric Generation Capacity (2000E): 38.9 million kilowatts Net Electricity Generation (2000E): 194.37 billion kilowatthours (bkwh); 74 % thermal, 18 % hydro, 5 % nuclear, 3 % other Net Electricity Consumption (2000E): 182.8 bkwh Net Electricity Imports (2000E): 2.07 bkwh

For instance, using the emission factor for coal from IPCC [48], coal resources given by the Global Energy Assessment [114] amount to 7300 — 11000 Gt C. Similarly, using emission factors from IPCC [48], total recoverable fossil energy reserves and resources estimated by GEA [114] are approximately 15000Energy Assessment [114] amount to 7300 — 11000 Gt C. Similarly, using emission factors from IPCC [48], total recoverable fossil energy reserves and resources estimated by GEA [114] are approximately 15000energy reserves and resources estimated by GEA [114] are approximately 15000 Gt C.

Boats, planes, freight trains and trucks, construction, mining and agricultural machines, most cars and light trucks with spirit and muscle (i.e., hot V - 8's), motorcycles, motorhomes, snowmobiles, ATV's, all military vehicles, go - carts, golf course and sports field grass mowers, etc will always require and use liquid fossils fuels becasue these fuels have HIGH ENERGY DENSITY and are easily prepared from readily recoverable crude oil, which exits abundantly free in Nature, by fractional distillation and blending low energy processes that do not require the breaking of chemical ENERGY DENSITY and are easily prepared from readily recoverable crude oil, which exits abundantly free in Nature, by fractional distillation and blending low energy processes that do not require the breaking of chemical energy processes that do not require the breaking of chemical bonds.

Seawater uranium is not economically recoverable compared to all other current energy sources, be they fossil fuels or renewables.