The most recent forecasts had nuclear energy equivalent to two Saudi Arabias by 2035.
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Consider that today the world uses the energy equivalent of 2, 500 barrels of oil every second.
That's because creating all the other material people requires energy equivalent to burning about 12 parents.
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The fuel pellets typically contain around 10 milligrams of fuel, and if all of that were consumed it would release the energy equivalent to that from burning a barrel of oil.
The 160 turbines on the windfarm will be capable of generating 576MW of power, and the developers estimate that it will produce the energy equivalent to the annual needs of about 400, 000 homes.
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It is convenient to account for both oil and gas in terms of the energy equivalent of a barrel of oil, although actual North Sea oil production has fallen from just above 3 million bpd in1979 to just over one million bpd now.
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Van der Hoeven says countries can achieve energy savings equivalent to nearly a fifth of global demand in 2010, making energy efficiency just as important as energy supply.
By US Department of Energy estimates, tribal lands hold solar energy potential equivalent to 4.5 times the national electricity consumption.
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This is a nerve center to manage electricity coursing across thousands of miles, transporting as much energy in equivalent terms as two Keystone pipelines.
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The EU demand for energy is expected to rise by about the same level to 1.9 billion tons of oil equivalent energy.
This increased energy use is equivalent to plugging in about 30 refrigerators.
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Thirteen teams are competing to build a plane that can fly at least 100 miles per hour and achieve the equivalent energy efficiency of 200 miles per gallon of fuel on a 200-mile flight.
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It weighed about 10 tonnes when it entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke apart 30-50km (20-30 miles) above ground, according to Russia's Academy of Sciences, releasing several kilotons of energy - the equivalent of a small atomic weapon.
Meanwhile, the energy for everything else--offices, factories, homes and data centers is 85% supplied without oil, and most of it is delivered as kilowatt-hours. (Only a vanishingly 2% of electricity is generated by oil.) Once you connect automobiles to the electric grid, you access a trillion-barrel-of-oil-equivalent energy infrastructure almost entirely fueled by domestic sources: coal, uranium, natural gas and hydro dams.
The British production cycle is nearly complete, and it is substantial, equivalent in energy content to the cumulative Saudi oil production.
Dr. Brad Zamft, an ARPA-E program manager, pointed out that each year, the U.S. expends about 2 quads of energy the equivalent of more than 16 billion gallons of gasoline on the building and maintenance of roads.
Mr Wheelhouse said that Scotland was a world leader in tackling climate change and in renewable energy - and that the government would continue to pursue its target for renewable energy to produce the equivalent of 100% of electricity from renewables by 2020.
Green aficionados are familiar with the statistic that the sun bathes the Earth in trillions of barrels of energy (in oil equivalent terms), and less familiar with the fact that total known hydrocarbon resources are also countable in the trillions of barrels (from the oil-sands and ultra-deep-water sub-salt fields, to methane hydrates and coal, not to mention shale gas).
Perhaps Carter's most ignominious contribution was his now often maligned fireside sweater-wearing speech extolling energy conservation, lamenting the national "malaise" and calling for the "moral equivalent of war" on energy.
The fact of the matter is that, for the foreseeable future, opposing fossil fuels is equivalent to opposing energy use.
Supporters of renewable energy said that was the equivalent of taking some 3.5 million cars off the roads or turning off the country's biggest coal-fired power station.
That's equivalent to the energy used by 4 million Brazilians.
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The same goes for master limited partnerships in energy that the market considers the equivalent of junk bonds.
We consume just over 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent in all forms of energy.
This calculation is based on the EPA's formula of 33.7kW-hrs being equivalent to one gallon gasoline energy.
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Kaspersky suggests the equivalent of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
This savings will come through a reduction of 5.2 million kilowatt hours of energy use annually, which is the equivalent of preventing 3, 700 metric tons of carbon emissions.
Whereas Zhang's family used to spend hours seeking, chopping and carrying firewood, the switch to alternative energy has enabled them to save the equivalent of 100 working days, he estimated.
Barring a radical change in the technological playing field, there will never be an effective cyber equivalent of the International Atomic Energy Agency despite all the aspirations of organizations like the International Telecommunications Union to serve such a function.
The oil-equivalent metric represents all forms of energy consumed, including crude oil, nuclear power, coal, natural gas and renewable sources such as hydropower.
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