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3. Fossil Fuels

verfasst von : Antoine Bret

Erschienen in: The Energy-Climate Continuum

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Now that the stage has been set, let us look in more details at our problem. To which extent are fossil fuels limited, and how do we know their usage has an influence on the climate? Such are the questions answered from now on.

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Fußnoten
2
If you plot the production curve of Fig. 3.1 setting a logarithmic scale on the vertical axis, this initial growth phase appears as a straight line, evidencing the exponential growth.
 
3
You can check \(\int _{-\infty }^\infty P(t)dt=aP_m\).
 
4
See www.​indexmundi.​com or BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2012.
 
6
Financial Times, September 21, 2011.
 
7
See the Wikipedia article on “Petroleum.” This is a lower bound; the exact number depends on the kind of oil considered.
 
8
Number for the year 2010, see [1].
 
9
On a normal scale, ticks are regularly spaced, as in “1 ton, 2 tons, 3 tons...”. On Fig. 3.4, numbers are multiplied by 10 between one tick and the next. As a result, the vertical axis now reads “1 Mt, 10 Mt, 100 Mt...”. Such is a logarithmic scale.
 
10
When you cut a tree and burn it, the carbon it contained is released into the atmosphere.
 
11
Having a lot of coal and little oil, Germany used the Fischer-Tropsch process extensively during World War II. Altogether, it provided half of Germany’s total oil production during the war ([13, p. 344]).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Fossil Fuels
verfasst von
Antoine Bret
Copyright-Jahr
2014
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07920-2_3