Mapping The World's Loose Energy Use

GoCompare has created an interesting map which shows how much of the world's liberate energy is produced yesteryear fossil fuels, nuclear ability in addition to renewable energy.

The What Powers the World map uses what resembles a NASA Night-Lights satellite stance of the Earth. If you lot role the 'Fossil Fuels', 'Nuclear' in addition to 'Renewables' buttons at the tiptop of the map you lot tin encounter the world's lights turning on or off based on the sum of liberate energy produced yesteryear these iii liberate energy sources.

When you lot choose whatsoever of the iii principal liberate energy views interesting liberate energy stories are too displayed on the map. For example, if you lot choose the nuclear ability view, an orangish marking appears of France, which gets 74% of its liberate energy from nuclear power. Japan, however, gets solely 1% of its ability from nuclear liberate energy (before the Fukushima disaster it was 30%).