In my recent article, "Why Energy Storage Investors Must Understand Resource Constraints," I used data from a table that was prepared by my friend and colleague Jack Lifton and shortened by me for purposes of the article.
I managed to screw up Jack's numbers when I took out a few lines and that error slipped my per capita production numbers for all metals after copper up by one level. The following uses the entire table from Jack and recalculates all per capita values.
| Natural | Data | Annual Production | Per Capita | ||
| Resource | Year | (Metric Tons) | (Kilograms) | ||
| Crude Oil | 2009 | 4,189,210,000 | 616.060 | ||
| Raw Steel | 2009 | 1,100,000,000 | 161.765 | ||
| Aluminum | 2009 | 36,900,000 | 5.426 | ||
| Chromium | 2009 | 23,000,000 | 3.382 | ||
| Copper | 2009 | 15,800,000 | 2.324 | ||
| Zinc | 2009 | 11,100,000 | 1.632 | ||
| Manganese | 2009 | 9,600,000 | 1.412 | ||
| Boron | 2009 | 4,500,000 | 0.662 | ||
| Lead | 2009 | 3,900,000 | 0.574 | ||
| Nickel | 2009 | 1,430,000 | 0.210 | ||
| Magnesium | 2009 | 570,000 | 0.084 | ||
| Strontium | 2009 | 420,000 | 0.062 | ||
| Tin | 2009 | 307,000 | 0.045 | ||
| Molybdenum | 2009 | 200,000 | 0.029 | ||
| Antimony | 2009 | 187,000 | 0.028 | ||
| Cerium | 2009 | 62,992 | 0.009 | ||
| Cobalt | 2009 | 62,000 | 0.009 | ||
| Niobium | 2009 | 62,000 | 0.009 | ||
| Tungsten | 2009 | 58,000 | 0.009 | ||
| Vanadium | 2009 | 54,000 | 0.008 | ||
| Uranium | 2008 | 42,700 | 0.006 | ||
| Lanthanum | 2009 | 32,860 | 0.005 | ||
| Silver | 2009 | 21,400 | 0.003 | ||
| Neodymium | 2009 | 19,096 | 0.003 | ||
| Cadmium | 2009 | 18,800 | 0.003 | ||
| Lithium | 2009 | 18,000 | 0.003 |
I want to thank anomium for catching the error and pointing it out and apologize for any confusion my error created.
