Visualizing Energy

#Oil endowments have a big impact on gasoline prices. #Gasoline prices are lower than the benchmark price in most oil-exporting nations. Large domestic endowments lead to lower cost, and many exporting nations subsidize gasoline prices to garner political support and to spur economic growth. High income countries tend to have #gasolinetaxes. People in high-income countries generally have greater disposable income to absorb higher taxes, and taxes generate significant revenue for governments to fund a wide range of public goods and services. http://spr.ly/6042Qu33e

A #districtheating system is much more energy efficient compared to using #hydrogen directly as a heating fuel. A #bluehydrogen district heating system is about 267% more efficient than blue hydrogen alone. A #greenhydrogen #districtheating system with a #heat pump that uses ambient air as an energy source has an overall efficiency of the green system is 303%. http://spr.ly/6049txYXl

Global emissions of anthropogenic #blackcarbon increased by a factor of 10 from 1750 through the early 2000s. BC is a #superpollutant that warms the Earth up 1,500 times stronger than CO2 per unit of mass while simultaneously harming the health of people and ecosystems. http://spr.ly/6040tO8uA

Public sources provided about USD 1.3 trillion of financial support for #energy projects from 2013 to 2022. #fossilfuel projects received 56% of that support followed by other (24%) and #cleanenergy (20%) projects. The largest supporters of #cleanenergy from 2020-2020 were the European Investment Bank (EIB), the World Bank, Germany, Brazil, France, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The EIB accounted for 28% of global public finance for clean energy in that period. http://spr.ly/6046sv98o

#hydrogen can be produced in many ways, resulting in a hydrogen “color” classification to compare pathways. Different colors depend on the initial molecule being broken down, the energy source used to take hydrogen from it, and the byproducts of the chemical reaction. http://spr.ly/6043s6AGc

The extraction, processing, and transportation of #crude oil and its derivative fuels leads to accidents and disasters that release them into the air, land, rivers, lakes, and the ocean. The 500 largest fuel and chemical spills are heavily concentrated in the coastal zone and inlands waterways. #oilspill http://spr.ly/6047SdWQJ

The study of historic #energytransitions can provide useful insights. While #coal was cheaper than wood in England, consumers had to adopt a less efficient technology—the fireplace, which replaced the hearth because it could better expel toxic coal smoke. This meant that from 1300 to 1800, the price of fuel fell more sharply than the cost of heating services. Still, this transition to coal and new technology allowed the price of heating services to decrease, something that wouldn’t have been possible if wood fuel had remained in use. http://spr.ly/6046SG0N8

More than 86,000 #windturbines were built in 45 states (plus Guam and Puerto Rico) from 1981 through early 2024. More than 11,000 of those have been decommissioned since 1992. About 690 windturbines were decommissioned in 2015 at the Green Ridge Power wind farm (Altamont, CA). These turbines began operating in the early- to mid-1980s and had capacities in the range of 100 kW. http://spr.ly/6040qt1pa

More than 86,000 #windturbines were built in 45 states (plus Guam and Puerto Rico) from 1981 through early 2024. More than 11,000 of those have been decommissioned since 1992. Most of the decommissioned wind turbines were first and second-generation models much smaller than today’s machines. read more over at Visualizing Energy https://lnkd.in/dwYUpqwt

In 2023, drivers in the United States consumed 376 million gallons of #gasoline daily, nearly three times the rate in China, the world’s second-largest consumer. Driving America’s gasoline use are drivers in the top 10% in terms of their gasoline consumption, so-called “gasoline superusers.” Superusers collectively use 35% of all gasoline used in private light-duty vehicles (LDVs) – more than the bottom 72% of drivers combined.