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Think of all the heat your car generates. Heat out the exhaust,
heat out the radiator, heat from friction, heat from braking...that is
all wasted energy. Stationary power plants waste much less fuel as lost
heat (often recovering it as cogenerated steam), and transmission losses
are only about 10%. Cars have to run under all kinds of less than
optimal conditions, while power plants can run at close to maximum
efficiency just about all the time. It adds up.
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Burning fossil fuel at a remote plant to generate electricity which is
then transmitted long distaances by grid does not strike me as a
particularly Eco Friendly or Green substitute for buring fossil fuel
locally.