In the past month the big oil companies, BP, Shell and Exxon/Mobil came out with their annual peeks into our global energy future. The Oil Drum has summarized them for us. Exxon/Mobil looks out to 2040; Shell looks to 2050 and beyond; while BP focuses on the relatively short term to 2030. The BP View [...]
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Humans’ global power consumption is growing by about 2.5% per year, even though the world’s population is growing at less than half this rate. The US Energy Information Administration reported low income Americans spend about twice the amount of household income on energy bills as the rich do. Last year the households in the highest [...]
The US Energy Information Administration predicted that, in spite of population growth, US energy use per capita will decrease from 2011 to 2040. Yahoo reports that while the US population is expected to increase 0.9% each year until 2040 and the economy is also expected to increase by an average annual rate of 2.5%, energy [...]
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A mathematical model developed by a team of scientists at Spanish universities confirms the United Nation’s lower bound estimate that global population will stabilize around 6.8 billion people by 2050. This number is below the current figure of 7 billion. Declining fertility rates is the main reason for the slowing population. China will soon become [...]
World Population 1980 to 2011
Source: thebull, Our Energy Predicament in Charts
China remained the world’s largest electricity producer for a fifth year in 2012. The National Energy Administration said the country’s total installed power generation capacity reached 1.14 billion kilowatts (kw) by the end of 2012. Installed hydropower capacity stood at 249 million kw, the world’s greatest level. The country’s wind power also led the world [...]
SingularityHUB asked: Will almost free energy be available in the near future? In a companion piece OILPRICE examined What Happens IF Cold Fusion Does Become Reality? hydrogenfuelnews told us hydrogen fuel cells are to be tested in Germany. A pilot project is planned for the country which focuses on using a hydrogen fuel cell system [...]
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