24 Feb 2011

Some numbers, concerning fossil fuels

  • 85 million Barrels of Oil required every day to sustain global needs
  • 120 million Barrels of Oil, will be required in 2030
  • 1 Barrel of Oil pumped out of an oil-well today in Iraq, costs about $1. It's efficiency, is compared to 25.000 hours of manual work
  • Making an average microchip, requires 630 times its weight in fossil fuels
  • Fermentation of organic matter for millions of years created the earth's oil reserves
  • 250 years, is more or less the total time for mankind to use most of these reserves
  • According to analysts, a world without fossil fuels would be able to sustain 1,5 to 2 billion people