Funny thing, that's not funny is, about 50% of the energy contained in coal makes it to the power outlet.
The rest is lost to heat loss, line losses and transformer losses. On 8/13/07, Darryl McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > "I think it's something the public should be aware of," > said watermain executive director Frank Zechner. > It's a figure that would shock and outrage most > consumers, said Conservative leader John Tory. "If > you told people that 20 per cent or more of the > electricity they were paying for in their house was > never putting on a light, was never running their TV, > was just going off into the air, I mean they'd be > outraged at that and demand it be fixed immediately." <snip> _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
