> Even though renewable energy capacity is 60% renewables, energy consumption is only 10% renewables.
You make a lot of unsubstantiated, untrue and misleading claims, but just to drill into this one for people who haven't seen this classic dodge before:
"Primary Energy Consumption" measures all the energy in fossil fuels. About 2/3 of that energy is lost as waste heat when generating electricity which isn't actually useful for "quality of life" but people love quoting it to make renewables seem ridiculous.
When in fact, it's one of the main reasons they're a good idea and we should Electrify Everything:
You make a lot of unsubstantiated, untrue and misleading claims, but just to drill into this one for people who haven't seen this classic dodge before:
"Primary Energy Consumption" measures all the energy in fossil fuels. About 2/3 of that energy is lost as waste heat when generating electricity which isn't actually useful for "quality of life" but people love quoting it to make renewables seem ridiculous.
When in fact, it's one of the main reasons they're a good idea and we should Electrify Everything:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545044/
https://ourworldindata.org/energy-substitution-method