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Related: About this forumTool Monkeys! IEA Projects Coal Equaling Oil As World's Top Energy Source By 2020!
By 2017 the agency says global coal consumption will stand at 4.32 billion tonnes of oil equivalent, versus 4.4 billion tonnes for oil itself.
"Coal's share of the global energy mix continues to grow each year," says IEA executive director Maria Van der Hoeven. "If no changes are made to current policies, coal will catch oil within a decade." The report forecasts that by 2014 China will account for more than half the world's coal consumption, while India will overtake the US in second place.
In fact the US is the only region of the world forecast to reduce demand for coal says the report, highlighting the role being played by shale gas in the energy mix.
"The US experience suggests that a more efficient gas market, marked by flexible pricing and fuelled by indigenous unconventional resources that are produced sustainably can reduce coal use, CO2 emissions and consumers' electricity bills without harming energy security" says Ms. Van der Hoeven.
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Tool Monkeys! IEA Projects Coal Equaling Oil As World's Top Energy Source By 2020! (Original Post)
hatrack
Dec 2012
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phantom power
(25,966 posts)1. fuck yeah
CRH
(1,553 posts)2. more good news, can't win this fight, n/t
Nihil
(13,508 posts)3. Really? I'm sure we were (stridently & repeatedly) told that this wouldn't, couldn't happen?
> "Coal's share of the global energy mix continues to grow each year,"
Nah, that must be some sort of fancy acronym for a widespread renewable revolution ...
it couldn't be that dirty polluting shit ripped out of mountains and burned to release not
only CO2 but shitloads of particulates (some radioactive) and toxic "ash" slurry?
> The report forecasts that by 2014 China will account for more than half the world's
> coal consumption, while India will overtake the US in second place.
No prizes for guessing which three nations form the most reliable roadblocks to any
attempt to control carbon emissions on a global basis ...
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)4. Totally unsurprising, that.
The US is heading toward a coal export boon.