[ RadSafe ] Anyone have GOOD world wide energy consumption data?

[Jeff Terry]

Hi Ted, 

I rely on the BP World Energy Report for all of my energy consumption data that I present. 

http://tinyurl.com/26h3ayt

Jeff


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On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Ted de Castro wrote:

> Members here often have good data like this right on the top of their minds or at least readily available.
> 
> I wanted to do some world wide energy consumption/resource calculations - purpose not important at this point - so using Google I was trying to determine world wide fossil fuel consumption and ran into what appeared to be good information - mostly from Wikipedia.
> 
> I found references for oil:
> 
> 85,000 barrels per day 2003
> 
> Barrel of oil 42 gallons crude - 44 gallons refined of which 6.8 gallons is NOT used for fuel.
> 
> and Oil energy equivalent /barrel
> 
> 1.7 MWh
> 5.8 e6 BTU
> 6.1178632e9 J
> 
> THEN I found another reference that gave 2004 data:
> 
> Oil 160 e15 BTU/yr
> coal 95e15 BTU/yr
> gas  95e15 BTU/yr
> 
> I thought that NOW I have the info I needed and could bring it all together.
> 
> Unfortunately I chose to check the data for internal consistency and:
> 
> 85,000*5.8 e6*365 = 1.8 e14 BTU.yr
> 
> from the first reference does NOT equal 1.6 e17 as stated in the other reference.
> 
> Factor of 2 agreement I would have accepted - factor of 10 - skeptical.  BUT factor of 1000 -
> all I have here is junk data which could only yield a GIGO calculation.
> 
> MAYBE the ratio of oil/coal/gas is ok - but considering the discrepancy - unless ONE of those numbers can agree with RELIABLE data - I doubt that as well.
> 
> So - can anyone point me to better data?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ted de Castro
> retired (for all those that want to ascribe an affiliation with each message)
> 
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