Reposted by Mathijs Boom
Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy.
We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task.
Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.
![With the headline “Der Wald stirbt” [“The Forest is Dying”], this 1981 Spiegel cover page, depicting gray, sulphur-spewing chimneys above a plantation pine forest, made it clear to readers that industrial byproducts, mainly sulfur dioxide emissions, were responsible for forest dieback.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7dm745pgg5yu6wazsvidub65/bafkreiabzh5oytlj5mm77pzlf4hcitlexf3il4ukgf6cjsm6xhdk63bwmi)
