IT'S WHISPER QUIET!
>WHAT?
I SAID,
IT'S WHISPER QUIET!
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
A big petroleum refinery uses as much electricity in a city of 250,000 people.
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Robert Llewellyn uses misleading (and sometimes outright bad) math, and he is an unreliable source.
http://www.transportation.anl.gov/pdfs/TA/635.PDF
Refineries on the whole are 90.7 efficient, which is on the rise as the effect of energy price pressures and process improvements exceed the effect of the decreasing quality of crude we can pump from the ground. They draw 2% of the US total of electricity consumed (42TWh/yr), which I suppose would be equivalent in some ways to a city of 1.5m people. So, I could see how some greenies could conclude there are exactly six refineries in the United States.