alt Hacker News80% of global energy consumption is still fossil fuels (oil/coal/gas), however.
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esarbe • today at 4:11 PM
That's primary energy, of which about half is wasted as heat. Electrification will bring this down by a lot.
80% of global energy consumption is still fossil fuels (oil/coal/gas), however.
That's primary energy, of which about half is wasted as heat. Electrification will bring this down by a lot.
Yes but primary energy isn't a good metric. There's 40-60% loss when converting fossil fuel to final energy being consumed.