Friday, August 30, 2024

Electricity

There is some confusion regarding energy use. Many articles promoting wind and solar list the percent of electricity that is produced by these two sources which today in the US is 14% but only 5% of total energy since 67% of all energy produced is used for things like heating and transportation. The increase in energy from wind and solar has not kept up with the demand and thus the $3 trillion spend over the past 20 years has only led to 5% of total energy use. Transportation 27.94% Industrial 22.56% Residential 6.33% Commercial 4.65% Electricity 31.11% This shows why the country should be moving toward natural gas for transportation since natural gas is much cleaner than gasoline and diesel. You can always tell if an article about wind and solar is biased when the talk about the percent that wind and solar is of electricity and not total usage.

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