One Beautiful Chart That Tells You Everything About How Energy Is Used In America

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories came out with their annual Sankey Diagram explaining energy use in the U.S. today, and it's another excellent visualization of the real story of American energy use. The chart shows the magnitude of flow between different sources of energy (left) and different consumers of energy (right). If you want to know what makes America run, this is the only chart you need to see. (Click to enlarge) There are a couple things we can observe. Renewables -- Hydro, geo...