Over the years, the US has drilled for crude oil in several locations, such as Pennsylvania, Texas, Alaska, and the Gulf of Mexico. A few years ago, as the US started drilling more in North Dakota, there were forecasts that we would surpass Saudi Arabi…
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What fuel is 1000 times dirtier than diesel?
I recently read an interesting article about petroleum coke (petcoke). A lot of it is produced in the US, and lately a lot of it is consumed (burned) in India … contributing to air pollution there. The article mentioned some numbers in the text, but …
How close are you to a nuclear plant?
Have you ever wondered how far you live from the closest nuclear power plant? I’ve crunched the numbers for cities here in the US, and created an interactive SAS map to help answer that question! The average age of US nuclear power plants is 35 years, and there just doesn’t […]
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Solar and wind power in the United States
Where is solar and wind power generated in the US? Let’s visualize this data on a map… I recently saw the following map on the metricmaps.org website. It caught my attention because it looks like North Carolina has a lot of solar power plants, whereas our neighboring states have very few. […]
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Is the US still a coal-powered nation?
I ran across a map recently that seemed to show a lot of US states are primarily coal-powered. The map was a little difficult to read, so I decided to give it a SAS makeover … Before we get started, here’s a picture my friend David took of the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power […]
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Driving 74 million cars on wasted natural gas
Did you know you could drive 74 million cars using the wasted natural gas that is flared from oil wells and refineries? Learn more details in this blog post! Flaring (burning) is commonly used to dispose of natural gas produced at oil and gas facilities that lack the infrastructure to capture it […]
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