Some of the most popular charts on Our World in Data are about energy production and consumption: how much energy countries produce, how they compare per person, and what sources this energy mix comes from.
But when people talk about “energy”, they’re not always talking about the same thing. There are different ways of measuring energy, from the very top of the chain – for example, coal going into a power plant – to the final link in the chain – the light that eventually comes out of a lightbulb…
Source: Our World in Data – A project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
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Climate Change
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