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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pride in an area in which it has justifiably claimed to be a world leader. Brazil gets about 92% of its energy from hydroelectric sources, an unusually high percentage and one that is natural, renewable and non-polluting. The blackout will not alter that. Brazil has enough gas- and oil-fueled plants to serve as back-ups in case of drought, and it will add another 20,000 MW of capacity by 2014, according to Rafael Schechtman, director of the Brazilian Centre for Infrastructure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil Blackout Raises More Questions for the Olympics | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...Without the energy revolution that the IEA says is necessary, oil prices will rise by 2020 to about $100 a bbl. in pre-2008 dollar values and by 2030 to about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Recession, an Energy Crisis Could Loom | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...behalf of the world's richest countries, including the U.S., the European Union and Japan, which also finance the agency. Birol said the organization's annual report is discussed with all member governments and reviewed by 200 energy experts before being released. (Read "The Real Impact of America's Oil Crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Recession, an Energy Crisis Could Loom | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...dire predictions about the world's depleting fossil fuels are in fact known to those closest to the oil wells: oil executives. Yves-Louis Darricarrère, global chief of exploration and production for the French energy giant Total, told TIME last week that the world has "oil reserves of about 40 years at current demands." "It is not so easy to supply the world," Darricarrère said in an interview in south Yemen, where the company just opened a liquefied natural-gas plant. "We will reach a plateau and start to decline." He said that expanding access...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Recession, an Energy Crisis Could Loom | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...Energy demand will rebound sharply once the recession ends and rise about 40% by 2030. Fossil fuels - oil, coal and gas - will make up about three-quarters of the global increase in energy consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Recession, an Energy Crisis Could Loom | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

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