This example was produced rather quickly in response to a challenge by Tim Heuer and shows the energy consumption of US households over the last few years and then predicted to 2030. I was inspired by an article in National Geographic that I was reading, and it highlights I hope, the rather dramatic amount of energy is wasted through “electrical loss” (though I was a little disappointed from the visualisation point of view, how little the data changed in the prediction, made for a less dramatic animation!).
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