China to Match U.S. Oil Demand by 2040

[Guest]

The Baker Institute at Rice University has released an elaborate report on China's hunger for energy resources and the potential impact on the entire globe.

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[alhanelem]

then the oil will dry up, society will cease to exist and WW3 commences

 

[Guest]

China to Match U.S. Oil Demand by 2040? no way.
let me correct it. China to Match U.S. Oil Demand by 2014 if we keep OBAMA's policy.

 

[Guest]

it shouldn't be take them that long if we either have obama or herman cain for the next run.

 

[NightLight]

2040, oil, still??? we should be zipping along in our electric cars by then!

 

[CKKwan]

We need more international collabration in order to reduce oil consumption.....

Blame China's one child policy, but at the same time blame them using too much energy because of her population?

And where is ITER and Nuclear Fusion?

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

[citation][nom]NightLight[/nom]2040, oil, still??? we should be zipping along in our electric cars by then![/citation]

Hell no! I loathe electric vehicles, I tried them and they're SO boring to drive... I'll stick to I.C.E.'s, thank you very much.

 

[AznCracker]

2040? We should run out of oil by then. Welcome to Fallout

 

[robisinho]

Its amazing to me that they arent already the number one oil consumer, they passed the US in carbon emissions some time ago -- they are now estimated at 25% higher than the US.

 

[serendipiti]

well, same amount of oil for a ten times bigger population... ? not that bad either, or do you still think God put oil on earth for US citizens only ?

 

[SinisterSalad]

The dinosaurs gave us oil, not God.

 

[snotling]

[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]Hell no! I loathe electric vehicles, I tried them and they're SO boring to drive... I'll stick to I.C.E.'s, thank you very much.[/citation]
Yeah, that's the kind of attitude that will make it happen: the whole world will have equal oil consumption because there won't be any left! We need to save Oil (and other resources) for more important things than you're stupid SUV and baby diapers phantom.

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]SinisterSalad[/nom]The dinosaurs gave us oil, not God.[/citation]
the people who believe everything is americas, are typically extreme conservatives, and they, are typically religious nuts

 

[serendipiti]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]the people who believe everything is americas, are typically extreme conservatives, and they, are typically religious nuts[/citation]
[citation][nom]SinisterSalad[/nom]The dinosaurs gave us oil, not God.[/citation]
Or God gave us oil through dinosaurs ?
just was sarcasm. Don't want to go into religion discussions (although $, €, TV or internet aren't better religions). Just bear in mind that we live in a world where there are far bigger things than "me" and my welfare. Not only "the what" matters. we should also care on how and why.

 

[serendipiti]

[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]Hell no! I loathe electric vehicles, I tried them and they're SO boring to drive... I'll stick to I.C.E.'s, thank you very much.[/citation]
Its an unfair comparison. Try comparing them to the very first oil cars... (and that's an unfair comparison too). One mobile freestanding system needs a balance on power/weigh/capacity so that you have enough power to move enough time the whole weight of the vehicle in a sustainable manner. Electric equipment still needs development to meet the minimums set by oil... but that development only came when notebook market made pressure (and profits to inversors) Lithium was long time known, it's not a metal from the future, and we dedicated lot of development in other areas (just because there was an interest, aka $, on it).
The fact is that nanostructures will boost Electric (one Magnet created at nano-structure level, adding all the magnets from nanostructures will be a really powerful one...). And we need magnets that strong for such a variety of things that someone is already figuring out how to build them (but it does so not so long ago, at least compared fairly to car manufacturers).
The problem to car manufacturers is that electric technology (which they decided not to develop) will be developed for other uses by others... (who perhaps will cannibalize them...)

 

[Guest]

It says in 1999 that 14.5 million cars were on Chinese roads, how can it go from 14.5 million to 770 million in just 20 years? Cars have been on the road for 100 years and it took the first 90-100 to reach just 14.5 and only 20+ more years to increase 53.1 times more?? What a bunch of crap.

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]amk-aka-Phantom[/nom]Hell no! I loathe electric vehicles, I tried them and they're SO boring to drive... I'll stick to I.C.E.'s, thank you very much.[/citation]

I like them a lot. You get used to the whirl of the electric motor.

Your best bet for an efficient I.C.E. would be a Direct Injection gas engine that can also act as a diesel engine (Homogeneous Stratified Charge) by not needing spark plugs at low load, and/or able to run like an Atkinson cycle, where the intake valves stay open part way through the compression stroke, so that the expansion stroke is longer than the compression stroke. Honda is going to release new 4-cylinder engines next year that can do the Atkinsons thing. Probably able to reach 45MPG EPA and perhaps 50MPG real-world if you try

 

[danwat1234]

Able to change from an Atkinson/Miller cycle to an OTTO cycle on the fly, depending on load and sensor input.

 

[clivene09]

[citation][nom]alhanelem[/nom]then the oil will dry up, society will cease to exist and WW3 commences[/citation]
As soon as they figure out a way to wage world war without the very fuel that they would be waging world war for.

 

[clivene09]

[citation][nom]Bub32[/nom]It says in 1999 that 14.5 million cars were on Chinese roads, how can it go from 14.5 million to 770 million in just 20 years? Cars have been on the road for 100 years and it took the first 90-100 to reach just 14.5 and only 20+ more years to increase 53.1 times more?? What a bunch of crap.[/citation]
Chinese citizens have only recently had the ability to obtain a vehicle for themselves. You do realize that not every nation follows the same curve as the USA right?