Sorry, I couldn't make myself clear enough. 1/3 accounts for all energy transportation, not only electric power. One must transport coal from mines to thermoelectric generators, and then electricity to houses and industries.
How much energy does it take to transport all that coal? Oil? And energy burnt in oil refineries? Energy to pump natural gas and oil for thousands of miles? Supertankers can burn a LOT of diesel oil. Even nuclear power... there is a lot of energy input before you can harvest that energy. 2011/10/21 Terry Blanton <[email protected]> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Bruno Santos <[email protected]> > 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. > > T > >
