On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Bruno Santos <besantos1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nearly 1/3 of energy consumption is spent in transporting energy itself.
That figure is a little high. Legacy Transmission and Distribution systems have a loss factor of about 15%. Today's modernized systems suffer half that loss. http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/handouts/Electric%20Transmission%20and%20Distribution%20Efficiency_Ranade92710.pdf http://goo.gl/XVNU2 T
