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owenversteegyesterday at 6:16 PM1 replyview on HN

I mostly agree. Certainly transportation is an obvious one. But of course there are still some losses; when you include all the losses in the system and cold weather you can easily get ~80% for EVs vs. ~30% for ICE cars. Heat pumps can be very efficient, but 5x more efficient than combustion/resistive heating (which is near 100%...) is not common in practice. 3x, sure, plenty of installations that get that or better in mild climates.

That said, those are two pretty large items. If we reached 90% electrification on both it would be a pretty big win: Road transport represents ~26% of global energy use and all heating/cooling (industry, building, agriculture) represents ~50%.


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youngtaffyesterday at 10:24 PM

> Road transport represents ~26% of global energy use

Does that 26% include the energy that's involved to ship the fuel in tankers?

Something like 50% of marine fuel usage is shipping fossil fuels around the world

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