Future energy uncertainties
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- Created on: 08-04-17 15:06
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- Future energy uncertainties
- Scale of global population growth
- Increasing insecurity - 9 billion by 2050?
- Size of undiscovered oil and gas reserves
- Controversial and very insecure - caused the Iraq war
- Discovery of new energy technologies (the radicals)
- Could increase security if exploited
- The scale of the possible switch to renewable energies
- Currently low scale switch to renewable energy. Increasing switch could increase security but less reliable
- Possible contribution of unconventional sources
- E.g. Shale gas in the UK, Alaska ANWR
- Could increase energy security as more exploitation
- Emergent economies energy demands
- Over 70% of primary energy demand will come from developing countries by 2030.
- Impact of rising living standards
- Increases energy use, increasing insecurity
- Scale of global population growth
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