Supply Displaced

EXPERIENCE EXCELLENCE
Massive figures into understandable context

These efficiency savings would displace the need for ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SUPPLY (illustrative purposes only, not in these exact quantities):

18 million rail cars

18 million rail cars per year carrying 2 billion tons of coalFor comparison: 17.4 million China rail cars carrying 2 billion tons and 7 million U.S. rail cars carrying 810 million tons in 2011, with the two nations consuming more than half of global production.

24 million barrels

24 million barrels per dayFor comparison:  30 million barrels/day (from 4,000-plus offshore oil rigs worldwide in 2011).

5 million LNG supertanker shipments

5 million LNG supertanker shipments (200,000 m3 per shipment)For comparison: 1.7 million LNG shipments worldwide in 2011.

44 million hectares of oil palm plantations

44 million hectares of oil palm plantations for diesel fuelFor comparison: 15 million hectares total global oil palm production in 2011.

50 mega-sized hydrodams

50 mega-sized hydrodams each equivalent to 3 Gorges Dam (total of 910,000 MW)For comparison: 1 million MW of global installed hydroelectric capacity in 2010.

68 million hectares of sugar cane

68 million hectares of sugar cane for ethanolFor comparison: 24 million hectares total global sugar cane production in 2010.

82 million hectares of corn

82 million hectares of corn for ethanolFor comparison: 162 million hectares total global corn production in 2011.

640 nuclear power plants

640 nuclear power plants each 1000 MW in size (total 640,000 MW)For comparison: 372,000 MW of global installed nuclear capacity in 2012

What about the rebound effect?

What about the so-called rebound effect?  The argument that efficiency gains induce people to use more energy, cancelling out the energy saving benefits.  This has been shown to be a manageable issue