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> electric motors consume a little over half of worldwide electricity Stated another way: over half of the world's electricity is used to move stuff.
by nerdponx 5y ago
> electric motors consume a little over half of worldwide electricity
Stated another way: over half of the world's electricity is used to move stuff.
- dotancohen 5y agoStated another way: almost half of the world's electricity is used to warm stuff or make noise. Compute power is lost in the error bars. Though I would say that actually moving stuff is probably the best use of such a resource.
- imtringued 5y agoConsidering the finite nature of earth, everything is about logistics and moving stuff. It's not like we generate new resources and destroy them. We take resources in earth's crust and move them in our phones and then back to the earth.