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Solar passes coal for US electricity
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (72+ words) FlowingData Solar passes coal for US electricity Another recent flip: Based on estimates from Ember, monthly solar-generated electricity reached an all-time high in May and coal reached an all-time low in April. It looks like it won’t be long until…...
Shades of a lunar eclipse
6+ mon, 2+ day ago (180+ words) There was a total lunar eclipse on March 3, 2026. From Michala Garrison mapping for NASA Earth Observatory, shows the shades before, after, and during. When the satellite passed over western Alaska and the Bering Strait, at 13:00 Universal Time (4:00 a.m. Alaska Standard Time),…...
National Renewable Energy Laboratory – FlowingData
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (42+ words) National Renewable Energy Laboratory FlowingData National Renewable Energy Laboratory More processing power requires more data centers, and for better or worse, they… Get access to courses, tutorials, and more resources. Become a member → New tools, refined process. Browse by Chart…...
Proposed arch in the path of air traffic
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (110+ words) FlowingData Proposed arch in the path of air traffic The current proposal for the arch sets the height at 288 feet above sea level. The New York Times mapped air traffic in the Washington, D.C. area to show why that’s an issue....
Estimating damage to civilian areas in Iran
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (71+ words) Even if only military areas are targeted, civilian and commercial structures are also damaged, because the real world isn’t separated into discrete, selectable items on a map. Bloomberg analyzed satellite imagery to estimate the type of areas damaged in the…...
Map of data center infrastructure
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (153+ words) More processing power requires more data centers, and for better or worse, they are going up across the country. Using data from a variety of sources, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory mapped data center infrastructure. The yellow circles represent operating…...
Jobs vulnerable to AI
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (126+ words) Researchers at GovAI and Brookings estimated vulnerability to job displacement due to AI. For the Washington Post, Kevin Schaul and Shira Ovide charted the estimates on two dimensions: exposure and adaptability. Estimating vulnerability is difficult, because a single factor like…...
Maintaining a vibe-coded internet
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (103+ words) The internet runs on a foundation of open-source software, but codebases, the learning process, and project maintenance grows more muddled as it gets easier to produce code without knowing what any of it means. For the Financial Times, Sam Learner…...
Showing when the data flips
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (131+ words) This is issue No. 392 of the Process, where we make charts that pull focus, because letting the data speak is for chumps. I’m Nathan Yau. This week, we focus on when there is a sudden change or flip in the…...
How much temperatures increased where you live
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (80+ words) He hear global warming and it seems like a monolithic thing that is far away from where we live. However, you can see and feel the changes locally. For the New York Times, Harry Stevens and Eric Niiler show the…...