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schiffern 2 days ago

  >But electricity consumption is a minority of energy consumption.
Everything is a minority of energy consumption.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_energy_consumptio...

If your standard is "I won't do anything unless it's the majority of energy consumption," you're really just saying don't do anything period.

  >It was always true that decarbonization was going to massively increase the use of electricity.
That was the plan (and it could have worked too), but what actually happened is the new decarbonized energy is supplementing fossil fuel instead of replacing it.