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Mapping how the United States generates its electricity
- grzm 10y agoSome pretty charts, but I find some of them more difficult to read than necessary. For example, "Electricity generation by power source, January to May 2015" attempts to balance coal against all other sources by placing them on opposite sides of the x-axis. A normal stacked bar chart would have the same effect while making it even clearer that they're percentages. Also, while noting the generation locations by source and power, it would be interesting to see the areas these generators service. Kudos to the Wapo staff for putting this together. One of the good things about charts like this is that it gets me thinking :) After all, I wouldn't have been thinking critically about these things if I hadn't seen the charts in the first place!