Favorites July 1st 2022
🧵Every year, bp publishes its Statistical Review of World Energy. Every year, there are some striking findings. Here are four, charted.
2. Wind+solar power now generate more than 10% of global electricity, surpassing nuclear power generation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Higher than nuclear is a low bar, but still, cool.
Different markets work differently, and we observe those differences with empirical studies.
Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart
If you're wondering how you 'pay' in a 'market' for use of a road, it's with time, and that's sorta the problem.
One of the really really weird facts to me is that when you look at what coorelates with obesity, what would you guess the biggest favor is? Poverty? Calorie intake? Exercise? No.
The biggest factor in America is altitude.
Notice that you can see the Rockies, the Sierra Mountains, and the Appalachians. (From this longer article, of which I've only read the altitude section)
Threads
• Thread about 'small cities' in China, which are each actually quite large by US standards. 293M people live in China's 1st/2nd tier cities, 500M live in the actual countryside. 600M live in these 3rd through 6th tier urban centers. Thread has tons of details about what it's like in what is essentially the 'median' city in China.
• Thread about 'cultural appropriation', folks in Sub-Saharan Africa are really into US Country music.