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From the source cited, here is a breakdown per industry: https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector
by squidlogic 5y ago
From the source cited, here is a breakdown per industry:
https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector
Energy usage for industry is 24%
Road travel is 11%
It seems aviation’s 2% is not the low hanging fruit.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoBut passenger road traffic is only 7%. The rest is freight which requires a completely different solution. There is no low hanging fruit. We need to address every sector. No individual solution is going to cut more than a few percent of total carbon emissions.
- iancmceachern 5y ago24% industrial use is in my mind. A buddy of mine worked for a startup a few years ago that promised to go into large plants and do some trickery with the harmonic losses with the very large AC motors in a lot of the big equipment. Apparently there is a lot of losses in such things. They would install equipment to improve the situation in exchange for a portion of the energy savings over time, which was considerable.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoExcept that also breaks down into 7% iron/steel, 3.6% chemical and oil, 1% food and tobacco and many other small categories. Is the same solution that cuts down on carbon emissions in making steel going to cut emissions when making fertilizer?
- iancmceachern 5y agoYes, because all those plants have big AC motors driving the machinery. Any place where there is a big AC motor can benefit from this. That means most of the applications you can think of.