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The world’s fossil fuel consumption has been about 78% of all primary energy* for the past 10 years, despite several trillion dollars of investments in RE systems. Current coal consumption is about 8000 million metric ton/y. China and India use about 60%.   * The energy from wells, mines, forests, etc., is called source energy, less exploration, extraction, processing and transport energy = prim…