US Energy supply prospects to 2010

Book · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:5152851

As a subcommittee to the US National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems, the Supply and Delivery Panel investigated: the availability of US primary energy resources and the prospects for their recovery as a function of cost and technology; the institutional, financial, and political considerations that might restrain or encourage energy production, conversion, and distribution; and the nonenergy materials, manufacturing capacity, manpower, capital, land, and water required for a range of energy-supply estimates. The panel's energy assessments applied three alternative supply scenarios to each energy source: business-as-usual, enhanced-supply, and national-commitment. Domestic production of petrolem and natural gas will decline in the future regardless of the measures taken to augment it. Even with the strongest national commitment, natural gas production will be only 18 quadrillion Btu/yr in 2010. The only expected major new domestic sources of oil and gas substitutes are oil from shale and oil and gas from coal, contributing some 12.9 quads/yr of liquids and 7.9 quads of gas by 2010, if a national commitment is made.

• OSTI ID: 5152851
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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