Energy Usage Dr. Ron Lembke
Hubbert’s Peak M. King Hubbert, “Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels” (Drilling and Production Practices, American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC, 1956),
When is the Peak? 2004 data
Causality or Correlation?
US Energy Usage Sankey diagram goes here
Price of Liquids
EIA Administrator Jay Hakes to the April 18, 2000 meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in New Orleans, Louisiana 100mb/d=36bb/y 3tb lasts 83 yrs?
Amount of Recoverable Oil, 2004 S
US Oil Imports, US EIA
THE PRICE OF ENERGY
NV Electricity Prices Elect. Price Data: EIA, 20y Rsq=0.91, 10y Rsq=0.94
Source: NV Energy, Jan. 2011
Electricity and Natural Gas in NV
Natural Gas Price Forecast
Electricity Costs (again)
NV Energy Plants Coal: 487 MW Gas: 4,233 MW Wind:200 MW Geo:130 MW
NV Energy Emissions
Global Hydrocarbon Reserves
Oil Sands reserves Difference vs light sweet crude
Proved reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated with a high degree of confidence to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward, from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions.
Proven Oil Reserves, CIA Factbook
OPEC Nations
Laherre, 1997