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The map above compares the number of hours of sunshine per year in Europe compared to the United States. What’s really surprising is just how much more sun the US gets on average compared to Europe.
This is of course due to the fact that Europe is actually quite a bit further north than most people think.
The chart above shows the stunning change in the UK’s electricity generation mix over the last century. 100 years ago coal was king, whereas today it’s a small and shrinking part of the mix.
The map above was created Visualcapitalist.com to highlight the plight of the 1.2 billion people worldwide (16% of the world’s population) without access to electricity using data from the World Bank from 2017.
The data comes from the The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series. You can also watch Robert Rohde’s original video below:
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