Re: An end to high-energy bulbs

["Paul Bendall" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay I can see that it could be interpreted differently to what I
meant.

As most electricity is generated from coal, oil or gas and uses
steam to turn turbines and genrate the elctricity then it is around
33% efficient. The transfer of the electricty to homes will loose
more and finally the process of, using the elcetricity for the task
will also introduce inefficeiency.

I haven't seen any data but I can't help thinking that electric cars
are probably more polluting than using petrol directly due to the
inefficiencies of creating the electricity in the first place.

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Simon Coates" <simon@...> wrote:
>
> "Electricity is a very inefficient source of energy"
>
> No it's not!  As a source it can be 100% efficient.
> It's how you make it that can be inefficient.
>
> Simon
>