Jesse Peltan
@JessePeltan · 11 mai 2025
If you measure primary energy correctly, you’ll realize that human civilization is already almost entirely solar powered.
18 TW of “primary energy” is a rounding error on the 12,000 TW of sunlight that powers our agriculture, to say nothing of the photosynthesis that maintains
Jesse Peltan@JessePeltan· 16 avr. 2024Primary energy is wrong, but not how you think.
Primary energy gets criticized because it doesn’t take into account the losses that occur when converting and delivering energy.
This makes fossil fuels look like they do more work than they really do because most of that energy
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Yeah
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