You can use these simple rules of thumb to advocate for electrification: 1.Making electricity with wind, solar or hydroelectricity takes one third of the energy of making electricity with fossil fuels, which waste two thirds of their energy content. 2.An electric vehicle, regardless of size or type, will use about one third as much energy as a fossil-fuel vehicle. 3.For low-temperature heat like domestic hot water and space heating, a heat pump needs only one third to one quarter of the energy of heating the same thing with fossil fuels. 4.For high-temperature heat, induction heating needs
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