3h30m06s19f NoMusic - Bill Gates - Industrial Energy Consumption Already Optimized Process - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-24

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ A lot of energy consumption- It's an unbelievably optimized process. There's not the same room for improvement, which is largely industrial processes. -Bill Gates

This is a 200 ton electric arc furnace. The main power source for the furnace is electricity. So each furnace at max power is about 105 megawatts.
So you've been able to drop your power consumption per tonne almost about a third it looks like.
Probably since the mid- early- 80s.
So besides your scrap material input, what's your next largest cost on production? Electricity.
Electricity.