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Electrifying Everything Everywhere All At Once Is Key Climate Wedge

Burning ~20 billion tons of fossil fuels a year for heat, movement and electricity throws away two-thirds of their energy as waste heat while creating ~40 billion tons of CO2

In our future economy, any economic value chain that can go from wind turbines to wires to energy services without going through molecules will win. It will be vastly cheaper. It will be vastly lower carbon. It will be vastly more efficient.

And the degree of electrification that’s possible and probable is likely to astound you. This series will dig through all of the energy requirements of a modern economy and point out the reasons why radical electrification of everything, everywhere, all the time is our future.

Let’s start with an excellent visual, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory energy flows Sankey diagram.

LLNL Sankey Diagram of US energy flows for 2022 in quadrillions of Btu

Spend a minute looking at this diagram. Most countries in the world have variants of this. The International Energy Agency maintains its own versions for the world. Most of them…