I forgot to add the US has 2400 trillion cubic feet of natural gas - or enough to last 100 years at current rates.
Note that like oil, more natural gas gets discovered all the time so that figure increases.
Between oil, gas and coal, the US has enough energy to last for hundreds of years.
Obviously I am a big nuclear fan, it’s one of four energy sources that can sustain 10+ billion humans at EU levels of energy consumption.
Those are first and foremost solar PV specifically....nothing anywhere comes close to this energy source.
[approximately 3.85times 10^6) exajoules or (3.85 million petajoules per year) is absorbed by the Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, and land. ]
The entire human consumption of energy in a year is 620 exajoules.
Read those two numbers again the math works out to less than 3% of any desert anywhere on earth could power 1000+ exajoules. We have fusion already it’s in the F@@@ing sky and we have energy harvesting machines to use it and HVDC and HVAC tech to move it across continent scale distances ask the Chinese they already do it today across 1200+ mile distances. And BYD just changed the game with sub $0.02 per kWh all in levelized cost of storage. It’s now cheap enough and dense enough to store 16+ hours of electrons for night time. Game set match.
Wind is solar power it’s the manifestation of temperature gradients into advection flow....
Global onshore wind resource...
“2005 study published in PNAS estimated the potential at 1100 PWh/year. This is equivalent to approximately 3960 EJ/year.
Offshore wind...
2,720 EJ/year:2018 ScienceDirect study suggests a higher potential with a lower capacity density of 5 MW/km^2
Second energy source is geothermal....
[Geothermal energy stored in the top 3 kilometers of the Earth’s crust is estimated at about 43 million exajoules (EJ). For context, this is approximately 86,000 times more than the total global energy consumption in one yea]
This is the tech to get at those top ten km not just 3.
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-firm-record-breaking-drill
“The demo, held at a granite quarry in Marble Falls, Texas, showed the company’s ability to vaporize rock using high-frequency electromagnetic waves, drilling 387 feet (118 meters) into solid granite without any physical contact...
At approximately 387 feet (118 meters), the hole is the deepest ever drilled with millimeter-waves, which are similar to the microwaves used in an oven. The waves were powerful enough to ablate the pink granite into grey ash at the demo site, where samples were made available during the tour.
This enables a radically different form of drilling, which is potentially capable of reaching the superhot, superdeep geothermal layers miles beneath Earth’s surface...
Although the team wasn’t focused on speed, they still reached drilling rates of up to 16 feet (five meters) per hour through some of the world’s hardest rock. “That’s extremely fast,” Lamb revealed.
Henry Phan, Quaise’s vice president of engineering, noted that typical commercial drilling averages just a tenth of a meter per hour through granite.”
5 meters per hour is 25 days to drill a 3km deep hole in solid hard granite the top km or so of most bores are going to be sedimentary rocks with 500 feet per hour or more ROP that’s rate of penetration and the term we Ops Geos use.
This tech also opens up spent fuel fission product disposal into deep granite boreholes more on that later.
Geothermal is 24/7/365 heat and therefore spinning turbines for electrons too. Fun fact as I posted above you can also store heat in the earth as long as the temp going down is higher than the local rock temp energy is stored so having a geothermal energy borehole can be used to produce energy or store it for long periods of time. You joule heat or nuclear heat your supercritical CO2 going down bore and pull said energy back later with deep bores you also get 150C geothermal heat everywhere on earth it’s down there you just got to drill too it.
Also fun fact having the ability to drill into granite at will and in multiple Km length well bores let’s you solution mine said granite using acids and a halide like fluorine or chlorine. Granite is 3-4ppm uranium and there is 40+ trillion tonnes of it in earths top 3km starting to see a pattern. It’s like God intended for us to be a Tier one civilization. The Sileach process grabs all the metals so the 10% by mass aluminum is coming too along with K and Ca and Mg. All of which are...battery anodes Fe,Ti,Mg,P are there in ppt and percentage amounts too. Want more Mg and Fe in unlimited amounts solution mine basalt. Every metal of interest uranium included form insoluble sulfates and can be selectively precipitated out of the returning fluid. Or use the different electro potentials and electroplate them out individually. Point is once you can solution mine granite you are never out of uranium or aluminum for that matter. Basalt gets you unlimited iron and titanium too.
Third forever energy is of course nuclear fission...
Assuming all atoms in a sample of Pu-239 undergo fission, one gram would produce approximately 0.95 gigawatt-days of thermal energy. This also applies to U238 breed into Pu239 one gram of U238 that captures enough neutrons to decay to Ou239 also would make the same 200MEV per fission event U238 is Pu mother.
There is 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium in the world ocean singular we have one ocean it’s all connected and completely surrounds all land not the other way around.
In the top 3km of crust there is 40+ trillion tonnes of uranium that MMW drill opens up all of it to solution mining effectively unlimited amounts.
[To fuel 660 exajoules of annual human consumption with 40 trillion tonnes of uranium using fast breeder reactors, it would last for approximately 45 billion years]
The the second largest store of energy on earth the deuterium in worlds oceans liquid...
4.6 x 10¹³ tonnes (46 trillion tonnes). This can also be stated as 4.6 x 10¹⁶ kilograms. Of deuterium.
fusing 1 kg of pure deuterium would release approximately 87,500 gigajoules of energy.
Those two numbers should show with zero doubt other than the giant fusion reactor we already have in the sky D-D fusion is limitless. Billions and billions of years per worth the math works out to 3.2 billion years.
Humans have mastered fission we had an INF reactor that breed more fuel than it burnt and output only fission products and used 99% of the energy in mined uranium. We are there today not tomorrow we have 45 billion years worth in the crust and finally have the drills to get at it. The ocean holds a billion years worth too.
We also have hit Q1 for fusion and the Chinese have 1000 seconds plus fusion at Q<1 but over 0.3 so we have the tech for fusion fission hybrid breeders with thousands of Kg per year of Pu fission fuel being breed given the already mined depleted uranium supplies with breeders we have over a thousand years from today worth of fuel for breeders sitting in storage its a crime against humanity to not use it.
Notice no where in this is a single fossil fuel why? Because they are finite and rapidly depleting if ten billion humans at EU levels of energy consumption. Oil goes in 12 years all of it gone forever that recovered at any cost as well not just economical, natural gas is 22 years at those levels of use again theoretically recoverable at any costs. Coal is 27 ish years again costs be damned. So no you absolutely cannot drill baby drill or mine baby mine there is a coming reckoning if we as a species do not move and move quickly to one or better all of the forever energy sources. It’s cold hard math that doesn’t care about feelings, beliefs,politics or guy feelings or “common sense” math is math and it’s universal.