Coal still accounts for almost 40 percent of global power generation
by David Roberts, Vox
The energy giant BP’s annual Statistical Review of World Energy is a compendium of facts, figures, charts, and graphs on global energy use. This year’s edition is out, and it contains one of the more alarming, not to mention depressing, charts I’ve seen in a long while.
It’s not the chart most of the media coverage has focused on, which shows coal having a sharp reversal of fortune after several years of decline.
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