{Planetary Emergence Project} Cubic Mile of Oil= 91,250,000 Solar Panels ... 32,850 Wind Turbines
Ashanti Vivia
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2186
3 years later...and what have we done?
Cape Cod Wind Farm, First U.S. Offshore, A Go
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From: Ashanti Vivia <vivia.e...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 1:53 AM
Subject: Fwd: Cubic Mile of Oil= 91,250,000 Solar Panels ????
Cubic Mile of Oil= 91,250,000 Solar Panels -????
Some interesting specs....based on a talk with researcher Hewitt Crane
at Stanford University. Are we ready for a post-industrial society???
Ashanti~
The world uses currently consumes approximately one cubic mile of oil (CMO) per year.
Cubic Mile of Oil (CMO) compared to Eiffel tower:
When other energy sources are expressed in terms of CMO it's easier to compare them. Total energy consumption is 2.5 CMO/year, as shown below:
| Fossil | ||
| Oil | 1.0 | |
| Coal | 0.6 | |
| Gas | 0.5 | |
| Green | ||
| Hydropower | 0.2 | |
| Biomass (wood) | 0.01 | |
| Solar, wind, thermal | 0.001 | |
| Nuclear | ||
| Fission | 0.2 | |
| Other | ||
| Geothermal | 0.01 | |
| TOTALS | ||
| Fossil | 2.1 | (0.85%) |
| Green | 0.2 | (7.5%) |
| Nuclear | 0.2 | (7.5%) |
| Other | 0.01 | (0%) |
| Total | 2.5 | (100%) |
"To obtain in one year the amount of energy contained in one cubic mile of oil, each year for 50 years we would need to have produced the numbers of dams, nuclear power plants, coal plants, windmills, or solar panels" shown below:
Hewitt Crane put this in WEEKLY terms:
| Category | Source | Size | Average Number Installed PER WEEK FOR 50 YEARS |
| Fossil | |||
| Oil wells | 27,000 barrels/day | 1 | |
| Green | |||
| Wind turbines | 1,200 kW | 1,500 | |
| Photovoltaic | 200 W panels | 12,000,000 | |
| Nuclear | |||
| Reactor | 900 MW | 1 |
Imagine manufacturing 12 MILLION NEW 8' x 4' solar panels each WEEK for 50 years. After 50 years, IF ALL those hundreds of millions of solar panels were still working, you would have built sufficient capacity to generate the equivalent of that cubic mile of oil we're currently pumping out of the ground every year.
Note: Hewitt's wind and solar numbers don't match the graphic but the difference isn't so important. The graphic's numbers translated into weekly terms would be Wind = 631, Solar = 1.75 million, not a significant difference.
"We're approaching some very dangerous times, very fast." -Hewitt Crane
Sources:
Second set of considerations about the state of the
world's energy supply (Hewitt Crane):
http://www.bootstrap.org/colloquium/session_02/session_02_crane.html
Forum discussion of Crane's ideas:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2186
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