“with wind the single-biggest contributor… Power production costs have declined “by almost half” … And the clean energy sector has created 50,000 new jobs… Ask me what was the impact on the electricity sector in Uruguay after this tragic war in Europe — zero.”

  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Changing your energy generation from burning something to turning a turbine with wind power, hydropower or geothermal power. Or just using solar, means that you have no waste heat for electrical generation.

    Waste heat is only created when you burn a fuel to boil the water.

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      7 months ago

      If you heat things electrically you still generate waste heat. Think electrical stove and its bigger industrial counterparts.