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Related: About this forumHow Green is Your State or Province?
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How Green is Your State or Province?
Jeff Desjardins, November 20, 2018
In countries where energy is plentiful, most people dont think twice before plugging into the grid.
Whether it is for a simple top up for your smartphone battery at the airport or the continuous energy chug of household appliances, its easy to take the electricity we use for granted.
But do you know where your electricity comes from and whether it is green or not?
Drilling Down by State and Province
Todays maps come from Reddit users Dr_Engineerd and PaulsEggo, who have used data from national energy administration agencies for the U.S. and Canada to show what percentage of electricity generated in each state or province is green.
janterry
(4,429 posts)Vermont here
PJMcK
(22,069 posts)We live in New York. We could be bluer.
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)...in that case I would guess NY would move up in a ranking.
Side note, I'm in NY too.
mountain grammy
(26,668 posts)there sits Colorado, completely in the pocket of oil and gas companies. Sad.
NNadir
(33,585 posts)It is, of course, the kind of crap one hears from MBA types who want to feel good about their consumerist money grubbing.
I wouldn't call the destruction of the Colorado River Delta "green."
In fact, the entire Delta, which was once literally - as opposed to the figurative language of people who don't know very much - green.
Maybe a "visual capitalist" calls the destruction of River Deltas "green," but I don't.
The experimental flow to the Colorado River delta: Effects on carbon mobilization in a dry watercourse
Of course, in a few cases we could be talking about bird grinders, bird cookers, and distributed heavy metals.
Duppers
(28,132 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)are apparently lumped together -- implicitly as "non-fossil fuels" in the US map, explicitly in the Canadian. So much depends on definitions -- "non-fossil fuels" could very well include other, non-renewable, sources.
Nuclear and renewables on equal footing ! Discuss amongst yourselves.