{"id":7778,"date":"2020-09-27T18:38:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2020-09-27T18:38:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:38:46","slug":"numbers-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/09\/27\/numbers-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>750,000,000<\/strong> \u2013 the annual investment (in US$) in wind and solar capacity thought to be needed to keep the temperature rise below 2 degrees<\/p>\n<p><strong>264,000,000 \u2013 <\/strong>the amount in US$ that the EU claims it will spend on climate measures as part of a Covid recovery plan<\/p>\n<p><strong>4,000,000\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 the number of people killed each year from the burning of fossil fuels; mostly in developing economies<\/p>\n<p><strong>1928\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 the date that ExxonMobil first entered the Dow Jones Index; it fell out this month<\/p>\n<p><strong>72\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 the % of solar modules produced by Chinese firms<\/p>\n<p><strong>69\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0the % of lithium ion batteries produced by Chinese firms<\/p>\n<p><strong>45\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0the % of wind turbines produced by Chinese firms<\/p>\n<p><strong>40\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 the price of oil in US$. \u00a0Saudi Arabia needs a price of ~75 US$ even to break even<\/p>\n<p><strong>5\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 the % of the world's energy currently produced by solar and wind.<\/p>\n<p>These are taken from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2020\/09\/17\/is-it-the-end-of-the-oil-age\">Leader<\/a> in <em><strong>The Economist<\/strong><\/em> of September 17th. \u00a0The edition has a special feature on the future of energy and the end (?) of the oil age. \u00a0The last and first numbers are linked. \u00a0If the 5% has to have a chance of reaching 50% by, say, 2050, $750bn is the sort of level of spending that will be needed. \u00a0Currently, it is only a third of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>750,000,000 \u2013 the annual investment (in US$) in wind and solar capacity thought to be needed to keep the temperature rise below 2 degrees 264,000,000 \u2013 the amount in US$ that the EU claims it will spend on climate measures...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}