Nonrenewable Energy
Nonrenewable Energy
Nonrenewable Energy
www.cmu.ac.th
Introduction to Geography
154100
Energy
Dr.Watinee Thavorntam
Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences
http://www.geo.soc.cmu.ac.th/team_member/watinee/
Student
http://www.ren21.net/Portals/0/documents/Resources/GSR/2014/GSR2014_full%20report_low%20res.pdf
Energy Consumption
NASA-NOAA satellite reveals new views of Earth at night
Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012 (credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC)
Energy consumption
Why Canada, U.S. and Australia consume more energy than the other countries?
Answer : https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/correlation-of-per-capita-
energy
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use from 1965- 2016
http://burnanenergyjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WorldMap_EnergyConsumptionPerCapita2010_v4_BargraphKey.jpg
Energy consumption
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https://planaplanetearth.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/co2-emissions-developed-v-developing.png
https://www.nationalgrid.com/responsibility/environment/cop26
https://pipanews.com/pm-modi-at-cop26-glasgow-india-will-be-a-carbon-free-country-by-2060-namo-points-out-in-glasgow-india-will-achieve-the-target-of-net-zero-carbon-emission-by-2070-says-narendra-modi-at-cop26-glasgo/
https://thestandard.co/joe-biden-criticize-china-and-russia-leader-on-missing-cop26-conference/
Type of Energy consumption
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https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/energy-outlook/bp-energy-outlook-2020.pdf
Type of energy resources & trends
Fuel shares of primary energy and contribution to growth in 2019
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https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2020-full-report.pdf
GHG emissions
CO2 emission per unit of energy produced by using various energy resources to produce electricity
Energy consumption
Source : http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
Energy consumption
Source: https://www.slideshare.net/ipcc-media/ipcc-fifth-assessment-report-climate-change-and-impacts-by
-renate-christ-secretary-of-the-ipcc-safranbolu-25-march-2015?next_slideshow=1
Energy consumption
Source: https://www.slideshare.net/ipcc-media/ipcc-fifth-assessment-report-climate-change-and-impacts-by
-renate-christ-secretary-of-the-ipcc-safranbolu-25-march-2015?next_slideshow=1
Energy consumption
Changes in precipitation and Weather extremes
Monthly precipitation area are expected to decreases in number but increase intensity
Source : Hijioka et al., 2014
FossilFossil
Fuels fuels
Major
part of
Major used for GHG
Industrial and
transportation emission
sectors
Fossil fuels
(Oil, Coal,
Natural Gas)
Nonrenewable energy : Oil
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2020-full-report.pdf
Nonrenewable energy : Oil
Oil: Consumption
People in the U.S. consume as much energy in a day as a person in the poorest countries consumes in
a year.
1. In 2004, the U.S. used 24% of the world’s commercial energy with only 4.6% of the
population.
2. India has 16% of the world’s population and consumes about 3% of the world’s commercial
energy.
3. About 94% of the commercial energy in the U.S. comes from nonrenewable energy resources,
with the remaining 6% coming from renewable biomass and hydropower.
4. An important environmental, economic, and political issue is what energy resources the U.S.
might be using by 2050 and 2100.
5. Burning fossil fuel causes more than 80% of U.S. air pollution and 80% of CO2 emissions.
Many energy experts feel the need to move to cleaner energy resources, not because of energy
source depletion but to clean up the environment.
6. Fossil fuel and nuclear power industries have been receiving government subsidies and do not
want to give them up. The energy path for the U.S. is primarily a political decision.
Nonrenewable energy : Oil
http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/earth/energy-supply.php
Nonrenewable energy : Oil
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2020-full-report.pdf
Nonrenewable energy : Oil
Geopolitical and economic events have driven large movements in world oil prices
https://www.slideshare.net/hzharraz/crude-oil-price-formation
Nonrenewable energy : Oil
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2020-full-
report.pdf
Nonrenewable energy : Oil
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2020-full-
report.pdf
Trads off: Oil
https://www.uniongas.com/business/alternative-energy-solutions/liquified-natural-gas/production-and-delivery
Nonrenewable energy : Natural Gas
https://www.ngvglobal.com/blog/category/vehicles-fuels/natural-gas-vehicles-ngv/page/3
https://www.pttplc.com/en/Products/Ourbusinessbypttplc/Gasunit/Pttngv/Pttngv.aspx#:~:text=Natural%20Gas%20for%20Vehicles%20(NGV,strength%20and%20durability%2C%20including%20steel .
Nonrenewable energy : Natural Gas
Top increase and decrease in LNG exports and imports
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2020-full-
report.pdf
Nonrenewable energy : Natural Gas
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2020-full-report.pdf
Nonrenewable energy : Natural Gas
Reserve –to-production(R/P) ratios (years)
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2020-full-report.pdf
Nonrenewable energy : Natural Gas
http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/earth/energy-supply.php
Nonrenewable energy : Coal
• Coal is a solid fossil fuel formed 300–400 million years ago. It is mostly carbon with
small amounts of sulfur and trace amounts of mercury. Burning coal releases SO2 and
trace amounts of mercury and radioactive materials.
• Coal is extracted underground in dangerous circumstances (accidents and black lung
disease).
• Coal is burned to produce electricity and steel. Reserves in the U.S., Russia, and
China could last hundreds to thousands of years.
• Sixty-two percent of the world’s electricity is produced by burning coal. It is the
world’s most abundant fossil fuel.
• Coal has a severe environmental impact on air, water, and land, and over one-third of
the world’s annual CO2 emissions come from coal.
• Coal emissions cause thousands of premature deaths, at least 50,000 cases of
respiratory disease, and several billion dollars of property damage.
Nonrenewable energy : Coal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_station
Nonrenewable energy : Coal
World Coal Reserves in 2019
Nonrenewable energy : Coal
Nonrenewable energy : Coal
Germany reactivates coal power plants amid Russian gas supply threats
https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/germany-reactivates-coal-power-plants-amid-russian-gas-supply-threats/
Nonrenewable energy : How long will it last?
http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/earth/energy-supply.php
Nonrenewable energy : How long will it last?
▪ Nuclear power can produce radioactive waste which is dangerous to health and
life for hundreds of years
▪ There is no secure place for storage.
▪ Public confidence has also been shattered by the explosion at Chernobyl in
1986
▪ Several major reasons for the failure of nuclear power to grow are
▪ multibillion-dollar cost overruns
▪ higher operating costs
▪ more malfunctions than expected
▪ poor management.
Nonrenewable energy : Nuclear power
Number of operable nuclear power reactors worldwide as of May 2022, by country
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267158/number-of-nuclear-reactors-in-operation-by-
country/#:~:text=Operable%20nuclear%20power%20reactors%20worldwide%202022%2C%20by%20country&te
xt=As%20of%20May%202022%2C%20there,the%20time%2C%20at%2092%20units.
Nonrenewable energy : Nuclear power
Trad-offs
Reference
Miller, G.T. and Spoolman, S. 2009. Living in the Environment. Canada: Brooks/Cole.