alt Hacker NewsYes 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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layer8 • yesterday at 4:34 PM
That’s fair, but factoring the energy loss in, it still remains the clearly larger share.
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A lot of energy is used for heating, heating water is more efficient with fossil fuel than with electricity - because for electricity you have transmission loss.