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You weren’t totally wrong, just not the most correct :)

I looked up the numbers, in the US, it’s something like 70% burn on-site for electricity, 20% burn in some nearby use (e.g. process steam or greenhouse warming) and 10% was cleaned up enough to pipe into the natural gas grid.

That’s by facility count, not BTUs.




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