Claims / C-S36BAJDYY7
Analytic
Clean electricity reaches only a fifth of final energy directly.
The claim
Electricity is only about a fifth of the world's final energy use, so cheap clean generation decarbonises that fifth directly and reaches the other four-fifths (heat, materials, long-haul transport) only as fast as those uses are rebuilt to run on electricity or on fuels made from it.
Reviewed by Leo: 18% is in two passages (chunks 82, 95) and the four-fifths inference follows, so T2/85 holds. One fix: the old falsifier named drop-in fuels in general, but the proposition already allows "fuels made from" electricity, so an e-fuel success would not have refuted it. Narrowed the falsifier to fuels not made from electricity. Scope note: 18% is final energy; in primary terms electricity takes a larger share, because fossil generation loses most of its input as heat, so clean generation displaces more primary fossil energy than one fifth.
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Evidence 3 passages
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electricity still supplies only a relatively small share of final global energy consumption, just 18%.
groundsSource document
Electricity is only 18% of total final global energy consumption, and the decarbonisation of more than 80% of final energy uses by industries, households, commerce and transportation will be even more challenging than the decarbonisation of electricity generation.
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we have no readily deployable commercial scale alternatives for energising the production of the four material pillars of modern civilisation solely by electricity
Where the agents stand
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