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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (124873)	10/13/2009 3:30:35 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206150

You have to be familiar enough with energy economics to understand what you were looking at with the first chart. The tip-off was the dramatically low 39% conversion rate for heat to kWH for commercial power plants, which obviously so low as to include transmission losses, the use of antiquated power plants and off-hour lost power. If you're not familiar with energy economics, this very low generation efficiency percentage obviously doesn't communicate anything to you about what it includes. It's an all losses in number. As this was a problem I spelled it out for you more fully in the second chart I made on a spreadsheet with published values. .