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layer8 • today at 4:00 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

80% of global energy consumption is still fossil fuels (oil/coal/gas), however.


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cbmuser • today at 10:26 PM

Which perfectly proves that 90% of the comments in this thread have no clue about energy and think that running a grid on solar and wind only plus some batteries is a solved problem.

tonfa • today at 4:24 PM

Yes but primary energy isn't a good metric. There's 40-60% loss when converting fossil fuel to final energy being consumed.

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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.

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