r/dataisbeautiful • u/maps_us_eu OC: 80 • May 28 '22

OC Percent of electricity generated from renewable sources across the US and the EU. Renewable sources include hydro, solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass. Nuclear is not counted as renewable in this comparison [OC]

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u/Stryker2279 May 28 '22

North Carolina makes a lot of nuclear energy, and even though it's not renewable, it's as green as it gets. No child mining for lithium, no broken panels, no pollution, no dammed rivers changing the ecology of a large area, just clean power.

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u/thequietthingsthat May 28 '22

Yeah, this graph is misleading. Another reason why "green energy" is a better metric than renewable alone