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NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 10:18 AM Jan 2019

How Green is Your State or Province?

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-green-state-or-province/

How Green is Your State or Province?
Jeff Desjardins, November 20, 2018

In countries where energy is plentiful, most people don’t 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, it’s 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

Today’s 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.




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NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)
3. It might be useful if the data were normalized to population...
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 11:32 AM
Jan 2019

...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)
4. With 300 days of sunshine and abundant wind
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 04:03 PM
Jan 2019

there sits Colorado, completely in the pocket of oil and gas companies. Sad.

NNadir

(33,585 posts)
5. This uninteresting calculation depends wholly on what one considers "green."
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 08:32 PM
Jan 2019

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.

eppur_se_muova

(36,317 posts)
7. According to the captions/legends on the maps, as opposed to the lede, nuclear and renewables ....
Wed Jan 9, 2019, 10:19 AM
Jan 2019

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.

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