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Chapter 12 The Economic-Geography of Energy

Chapter 12 The Economic-Geography of Energy. Introduction Energy in the International Arena: Trade and Geopolitics The National Arena: Location and Spatial Distribution Summary. Key Themes. Location and spatial distribution: type of energy, location of supply and demand

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Chapter 12 The Economic-Geography of Energy

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  1. Chapter 12 The Economic-Geography of Energy • Introduction • Energy in the International Arena: Trade and Geopolitics • The National Arena: Location and Spatial Distribution • Summary

  2. Key Themes • Location and spatial distribution: type of energy, location of supply and demand • Spatial allocation and movement: methods of energy transfer & networks • Futurism: what will be energy resources in the future, and the Malthusian Dragon: how will we adapt to depletion of nonrenewable energy resources?

  3. Energy in the International Arena: Trade and Geopolitics • The key role of energy in economic development • Multiple sources, with varying geographies of production • PETROLEUM: Highly uneven geographic distribution of resources AND a strong correlation between consumption and level of economic development • Growth of global alliances in sectors with uneven development and strong levels of trade: OPEC

  4. Parallels Fig. 12.3

  5. Parallels Fig 12.2, 12.3

  6. Parallels Fig 12.1, 12.2

  7. Historic U.S. Energy Consumption

  8. Aggregate Energy Flows 2003

  9. U.S. Energy Imports & Exports Scale

  10. U.S. Energy Consumption Trend

  11. U.S. Energy Overview

  12. Parallels Fig 12.6 Parallels Fig 12.8

  13. Composite Energy Flow U.S. Parallels Figure 12.7

  14. Petroleum 2003

  15. Coal 2003

  16. Natural Gas 2003

  17. Electricity 2003 Not Secondary Energy in the Pacific Northwest!

  18. Electrical Power Energy Sources U.S.

  19. U.S. Electrical Energy Sources: More Detail

  20. Electric Power Energy Sources

  21. Electric Power Sales

  22. The Falling Real Price of Electricity

  23. Wind?Could be huge in the PNW

  24. Energy Consumption Indicators

  25. Projected U.S. Energy Consumption Totally Unpredictable

  26. Malthusian Dragons? • Can these extrapolations continue? • The finite supply of petroleum, natural gas, and even coal • Shell’s recent revelations of exaggerated reserves • The hydrogen potential: who would supply? Existing petro-dominant energy companies? New players • The shifting interest in R&D in alternative energy sources with changing geopolitics • Can R&D save us again? What do you think?

  27. Energy Produced on Federal Lands

  28. Upshot • For most industries, energy costs are a small proportion of production costs • But, they are critical, and intimately related to transportation costs, that do have a significant influence on the global distribution of production • The geography of global economic activity is clearly influenced by energy supplies, costs, technologies, and trading systems

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