Energy Futures?
1 billion metric tons coal = 2.45-4.9 billion bbl oil
1 trillion cu. meters gas = 6.29 billion bbl oil
Climate change?
Nuclear?
Shell Oil projection
Resulting carbon dioxide emissions (1990 through 2100) Mtc 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 1980 2000 2020 2040 2060 2080 2100 2120 According to the Ecologically Driven Scenario, global carbon dioxide emissions would decline over most of the current century. Note that emissions will actually rise slowly until about 2020 and then fall to a third of their present value, which is currently about 6 billion tons of carbon. 11/19/2018 Year