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Originally Posted by Bownesian
I posted this in the other thread but I found this graphic to be interesting. It's from an Oilpro article and contains Exxon Mobil's assessment of future growth in various energy sources (note, this is all energy, not just electricity like the green lobby likes to focus on).
Even with 25 years of 7.7% average per annum growth in Solar (which is a huge amount), Solar will still add up to just a few percents of consumption worldwide. If that growth continues over the subsequent 25 years, that bar will start to add up to a significant amount:
http://oilpro.com/post/13695/exxonmo...0-year-smear-o |
Weird, that graph isn't from that Exxon report that it's referencing, and the numbers only partially match up with the data in the data tables of that report. The Exxon report only breaks out 'hydro' and 'other' on the demand side, and 'hydro', 'wind', and 'other' on the power generation side, and the numbers for solar & wind and other on this graph don't match up with either.
The whole report seems like a really good read and actually comes across less biased than the Oilpro article that's referencing it.
http://cdn.exxonmobil.com/~/media/gl...int-resolution