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The Unbearable Inefficiency of Fossil Fuels (thinc.blog)
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Humanity is graduating from burning fossil commodities to mastering manufactured technologies—from hunting scarce fossils to farming the inexhaustible sun, from consuming Earth’s resources to merely borrowing them.

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[–] rainwall@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And to compound on these efficiency losses, while the energy source is dense, it is heavy. You have to move fuel around by spending fuel, lots and lots of it. We use an ungodly amount of fossil fuels moving fossil fuels somewhere to be used. Fuel and coal tankers are a huge percentage of the energy we spend on earth.

Electricity on the other hand can be locally produced nearly anywhere with wind/solar, and with infrastructure upgrades, be moved over wire with very little loss and no fossil fuel expenditure.