December 11, 2012

(Almost) all the world’s powerplants

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From GE, via Ezra Klein’s blog at the Washington Post, this is supposedly a map of all the powerplants in the world, by size and type.

It looks as though they are missing a few.

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    Martin Kealey

    Fukushima appears to be missing too.

    12 years ago

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      Martin Kealey

      Or would be if I could read a map properly; please ignore that.

      12 years ago

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    Shane Baylis

    Also: is Europe really that heavy on renewables, or is there something funny going on with overplotting?

    12 years ago

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      Thomas Lumley

      There’s something funny going on with overplotting. Germany, for example, gets about 25% of its energy from renewables.

      12 years ago