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ssl-3yesterday at 10:12 PM1 replyview on HN

The presentation is nice, but some of the conversions are questionable.

For instance: The cost section, wherein 1kWh in the US is figured as having a cost of 9.7 cents.

In reality, it's not that way at all. Unless we're fortunate enough to live in an area where we can walk over to the neighborhood generating station and carry home buckets of freshly-baked electricity to use at home, then we must also pay for delivery.

On average, in 2025, electricity was 17.3 cents per kiloWatt-hour -- delivered -- for residential customers in the US.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...


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philipkglassyesterday at 10:18 PM

I looked at the electric car example for the United States. It has 3 kilowatt hours priced at $0.51, 17 cents per kilowatt hour, which seems about right. The "petrol car" example at the top of the chart isn't powered by electricity so its cost number is not directly comparable to the things that consume electricity.

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