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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AC uses about 10% of all electricity globally. However, that's electricity, not energy. If you include fossil fuels burned in engines in the energy equation, it drops to closer to 1.5%. There are bigger fish to fry.

Numbers: global energy production (all sources): ~650 EJ (exajoules). Total electricity consumption is ~23000 TWh -- about 85 EJ.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

1.5% of all energy used is huge. Actually insane. I was joking, but you've convinced me that we do actually need to turn all that off. As well as stop shipping so much, flying so much, burning so much oil, etc. But fucj me 10%of all electricity and 1.5% of all energy. Wow.