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Energy Sprawl Is the Largest Driver of Land Use Change in United States

Trainor, Anne M ; McDonald, Robert I ; Fargione, Joseph Baldwin, Robert F.

PloS one, 2016-09, Vol.11 (9), p.e0162269-e0162269 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Public Library of Science

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Energy Sprawl Is the Largest Driver of Land Use Change in United States
Autor: Trainor, Anne M ; McDonald, Robert I ; Fargione, Joseph
Baldwin, Robert F.
Assuntos: Agriculture ; Biodiesel fuels ; Biodiversity ; Biofuels ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Biomass energy ; Climate change ; Conservation of Energy Resources ; Earth Sciences ; Electricity ; Emissions ; Energy conservation ; Energy efficiency ; Energy industries ; Energy industry ; Energy resources ; Engineering and Technology ; Forecasts and trends ; Fossil fuels ; Geothermal energy ; Greenhouse gases ; Hydraulic fracturing ; Land use ; Land use controls ; Mines ; Mitigation ; Natural gas ; Nature conservation ; New technology ; Nuclear energy ; Oil and gas exploration ; Oil and gas production ; Physical Sciences ; Public health ; Renewable Energy ; Residential development ; Residential energy ; Risk ; Social Sciences ; Time Factors ; Trends ; Wildlife conservation
É parte de: PloS one, 2016-09, Vol.11 (9), p.e0162269-e0162269
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Conceptualization: JF RM AMT. Data curation: AMT. Formal analysis: AMT JF. Funding acquisition: AMT. Methodology: JF RM AMT. Project administration: AMT. Resources: AMT. Supervision: AMT JF. Writing – original draft: AMT JF. Writing – review & editing: AMT JF RM.
Current address: Africa Program, The Nature Conservancy, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Descrição: Energy production in the United States for domestic use and export is predicted to rise 27% by 2040. We quantify projected energy sprawl (new land required for energy production) in the United States through 2040. Over 200,000 km2 of additional land area will be directly impacted by energy development. When spacing requirements are included, over 800,000 km2 of additional land area will be affected by energy development, an area greater than the size of Texas. This pace of development in the United States is more than double the historic rate of urban and residential development, which has been the greatest driver of conversion in the United States since 1970, and is higher than projections for future land use change from residential development or agriculture. New technology now places 1.3 million km2 that had not previously experienced oil and gas development at risk of development for unconventional oil and gas. Renewable energy production can be sustained indefinitely on the same land base, while extractive energy must continually drill and mine new areas to sustain production. We calculated the number of years required for fossil energy production to expand to cover the same area as renewables, if both were to produce the same amount of energy each year. The land required for coal production would grow to equal or exceed that of wind, solar and geothermal energy within 2-31 years. In contrast, it would take hundreds of years for oil production to have the same energy sprawl as biofuels. Meeting energy demands while conserving nature will require increased energy conservation, in addition to distributed renewable energy and appropriate siting and mitigation.
Editor: United States: Public Library of Science
Idioma: Inglês

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Energy Sprawl Is the Largest Driver of Land Use Change in United States

Trainor, Anne M ; McDonald, Robert I ; Fargione, Joseph Baldwin, Robert F.

United States: Public Library of Science

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