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Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by fludlight on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:50PM (#16476581)
What is "rejected energy"?
Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by philipkglass on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:07PM (#16476761)
It's energy that is dissipated without providing energy services. For example, electrical transmission line losses and the less-than-100% efficiency of heat engine electrical generators both contribute to rejected energy. Those numbers can't be directly compared between the 2007 and 2016 charts. LLNL changed methodology for reporting them in recent years. The input primary energy numbers can be compared across the whole time frame, though.