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Ok, but again don’t forget about efficiency for biofuels.

If their Waste power plants are 30% efficient and produce 2.752 TWh that took / 0.3 * 60 * 60 ~= 33,000 Tj of fuel + 42,000 Tj of electricity from other sources. So, (33 PJ + 42 PJ) / 210 PJ = 36% of total primary energy supply used for electricity.

Which again shows why comparing pre conversion efficiency numbers to post conversion efficiency numbers gives rather silly results.



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