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Electricity is not the same thing as energy. Most energy use in the UK is going to be heating and transportation which are both overwhelmingly fossil fuel based
by JetSetWilly 4y ago
Electricity is not the same thing as energy. Most energy use in the UK is going to be heating and transportation which are both overwhelmingly fossil fuel based.
- philips 4y agoAnd a large amount of transport energy is moving oil and coal. "Nearly half of freight-rail transportation is used to move coal—most of the other half is wheat and food. A not-so-surprising revelation from a close study of the Sankey diagram: our fossil-fuel supply chain is itself a major consumer of fossil fuels." (Saul Griffith, Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future)
- MagnumOpus 4y agoNot in the UK - both coal production and coal power generation have been aggressively phased out over the last 50 years. (And natural gas - which has replaced it - flows through pipes, mostly.)