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Obama Takes a Crucial Step on Climate Change (nytimes.com)
6 points by lkurtz on Aug 3, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Something that came up in another thread today [1] is the LLNL graphs about how energy is generated and used [2]. From these, it's apparent that about 2/3 of the input energy for electricity generation becomes waste output instead of usable output.

Improving the efficiency of electricity generation must be one of the keys to Clean Energy.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994294

[2]https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/assets/docs/2014_United-...


Yes, this problem is often overlooked. I really wish the government would put more funding and research into things like thorium reactors and other types of reactors.




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