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As a proportion of total energy use, the US is ahead of China in moving away from fossil fuels by about 5 full percentage points. Most of the "energy independen

• jvergeldedios 2mo ago
  Wanna know a great way to lose a race? Check your rear view mirror and see how far ahead you are and then let off the gas. Or worse, start braking.
  • dorianmariewo 2mo ago
    so we win the race by burning petrol /s
• sarthaksingh99 2mo ago
  This is the second time this week I have seen this website misrepresenting data using this same trick. Primary energy is not total energy generated its total energy in the fuel used. On average coal / gas plants are only ~35% efficient so the graph does not correctly represent the useful energy generated as percentage. The graph is basically putting actual energy generation of solar and wind next to actual energy generated by coal and gas multiplied by 3. If they want to be even close to representative of reality they should multiply the solar power generated by 4. The same has to be done for the wind energy but I am not sure what the efficiency of that is. From their page: > Each source is measured by its physical energy content: fossil fuels and biomass by the heat released when they are burned; nuclear and geothermal by the heat they produce; and wind, solar, and hydropower by the electricity they generate. This graph is far more representative of reality: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?tab=stacked-discrete-bar&stackMode=relative&time=latest&country=CHN%7EUSA&source=total&metric=by_source&frequency=annual https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?tab=stack... China is still behind in percentage but by only 1-3%
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