Powering the Future in a Finite World, by David Hughes

David Hughes, a retired geoscientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, talks about current and projected world energy consumption and supplies. This talk was hosted by Post Carbon Toronto, and held in a meeting room at Toronto City Hall on 2011 Feb 3rd. at 7pm.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Peak oil
• peak coal
• peak gas
• electricity
• energy
• growth
• consumption

[DDDarray]

In the first part he shows a graph of primary energy consumption, comparing barrels of oil equivalent for coal, gas, oil, nuclear, and hydro and other renewables. It's not really fair to do a one to one comparison between thermal fuels like oil, coal, and gas, and electricity sources like nuclear, wind, hydro, and solar. Each unit of electricity should be weighed about 2.5 times as much as thermal energy sources. Later, he shows a graph of electricity production that does a fair comparison.

[1sustainablefool]

This is the world we really live in - this presentation, that succinctly and accurately explains the enormous energy challenge we face today has been up for a month and it has been viewed 42 times. Meanwhile, if some asshole posts a video of his dog doing a backflip it gets millions of hits.

It is truly amazing how denial coupled with systemic ignorance has brought us to this precipice. We are sooooo screwed.