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Earthtime.12/5/2023 Wind energy is a solid and mature industry and could handle the entire world’s energy supply in a matter of decades. Wind energy is itself able to threaten the fossil fuel industry, and this happens all over the world. The brighter the light, the larger the turbine):īeautiful right? Of course, I can’t help being a little proud when I see it all starting out in Denmark, but notice the pace. This is what I got from fiddling with wind energy data (every green dot is a wind turbine. On you can play with data of many kinds, just like, but this time as time-lapse geographic maps. If you ponder it, you can easily panic and just feel the urge to get away … but, wait, where to? But chill out and look at the following videos. Everything looks calm and stable for the first 100 years, but in the last few seconds we see a planet that literally overheats: It shows temperature changes year by year over the last 137 years. This video from NASA is the most frightening I have ever seen, and yes, if we had no prospect of the fossil fuel era being replaced by anything else, it would show that glimpse in the planet’s history where man burned it all and died in the flames. The following videos show something in a few seconds, which I previously had trouble believing.īut before I start playing with EarthTime, let’s get the scary bit out of the way first. But what really soothes our senses is colorful moving images. We like graphs and images with colors better. We are struggling to make sense of text and numbers. It uses images captured by NASA satellites since 1984. The platform has already been used in public outreach in schools and museums, and to inform world leaders at World Economic Forum events of major environmental and geo-economic shifts, from air pollution to inequality. Will the fossil fuel era be over soon enough to prevent irreversible catastrophic changes to our climate? A cool tool from from CREATE Lab tries to visualize the change, and this is how they do it:ĮarthTime, stitching together and animating high-definition satellite imagery, ties together diverse data layers to show the patterns and connections behind some of the major social and political trends of the past two decades – and how they are inscribed into fast-changing landscapes. Even though it is quite clear these days that solar and wind is raging on - like burying the coal industry and overtaking nuclear - it can be very unclear where we are in the process. In the midst of all the scary data on global warming, I discovered a new presentation of data on the global deployment of renewable energy.
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