Hard to express how much I love this:
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https://www.basicinstructions.net/
Glennn
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“Burning gas to light a room creates more heat than light.
Burning coal to create electricity creates more heat than electricity.
Burning oil to move a vehicle creates more heat than motion.
We are sending more energy up smokestacks and out exhaust pipes than we are putting to work to power our economy.”
This is not hyperbole: burning oil to power a car or burning coal to produce electricity is at best slightly more than thirty per cent efficient—or seventy per cent inefficient. For that reason, it takes two to three times more energy to run a standard car than to run an E.V., which is why even an E.V. charged with power from a coal-fired plant is still far more efficient than a vehicle run on an internal-combustion engine.