• Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Business & Industry uses over 75% of electricity in Ireland. Residential energy usage really is not that much, in any country in the world.

    Same with CO2, almost all of it is created by industries.

    • Ben Matthews@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      Although not an expert on that specific country, I can be sure that ’ almost all ’ is very misleading, even if it gets a lot upvotes because people find it convenient to blame some big bad other. Even if you have specific data for electricity, don’t forget a lot of CO2 is emitted by cars, and also by fuel to heat homes (including some peat in special case of ireland - and in that country a large fraction of GHG emissions is also methane from agriculture).

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        3 months ago

        Also no one ever mentions that the industries are building products for the public. They don’t just release CO2 and use electricity for fun lol

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Well, in the US, here’s a decent breakdown by sector:

        • 30% industry
        • 31% residential & commercial
        • 29% transportation
        • 10% agriculture

        I don’t know what the breakdown is between residential and commercial, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s pretty even.

        And here’s data for Ireland:

        • 38% agriculture
        • 21% transportation
        • 14% energy
        • 11% industrial (combined mfg combustion and industrial)
        • 10% residential
        • 5% other

        So yeah, unless you count agriculture as “industries,” they are one of the smaller factors in Ireland, especially compared to other parts of the world.