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And 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
by philips 4y ago
And 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.)