US Energy Flow Trends
Energy Flow Charts: Charting the Complex Relationships among Energy, Water, and Carbon
Introduction
...From the website... Energy, Water, and Carbon Informatics
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) produced the first diagrams illustrating U.S. national commodity use in the mid-1970s. The most widely recognized of these charts is the U.S. energy flow chart. LLNL has also published charts depicting carbon (or carbon dioxide potential) flow and water flow at the national level as well as energy, carbon, and water flows at the international, state, municipal, and organizational (e.g., Air Force) level. Flow charts, also referred to as Sankey Diagrams, are single-page references that contain quantitative data about resource, commodity, and byproduct flows in a graphical form. These flow charts help scientists, analysts, and other decision makers to visualize the complex interrelationships involved in managing our nation’s resources.
Chem 312 Assignment (04/12/22)
As displayed briefly in class, the Estimated US Energy Consumption" diagrams available on the LLNL website contain a vast amount of data. As you will see, not only is "energy" data available; other commodities such as carbon dioxide emissions, water usage/sources, as well as some newer hybrid chart.
Your assignment is to develop an interesting comparison between the any of the data, differences by year, by State, by country, by source, by...whatever you can compare. I do not what these instruction to be limiting. If an idea has come to mind when looking at the data, go for it. If an idea does not come to mind, then you can consider using the following as a way to start:
- 1) "This data" is interesting because...
- 2) When compared with...we see certain trends.
- 3) "This data" is shown in the Excel file below...
- 4) ...and now make a concluding statement.
When including a 6.5" x 4" Excel graph your assignment needs to be at least one page, single spaced, and should loook somehting like this.