So there’s a reason why people state per capita use. Anyways can you guess who the largest producer of Natural Gas is? It’s the U.S. and it’s not much better emissions wise.
Mansa_Mu on
Can’t believe there was a time where coal was 70-80% of our energy source.
Oinkalot on
Interested in the TWh scale, why not by mass? Original info comparing multiple energy sources?
MegazordPilot on
By coal, you mean coal-powered electricity?
EDIT: OK I checked the source, it’s actual coal, but measured in energy content, including non-energy coal (e.g. for steelmaking).
Kiytostuone on
You really need to break this down better to show historical data. The US was by far the largest producer for a century or so.
China was still using steam locomotives a couple years ago in the coal mines.
KebabG on
China will build anything and everything to quench their energy needs. They build the most renevable and most coal powerplants in the world.
Hermononucleosis on
The two countries with the most people are also the two countries with the most [INSERT ANYTHING HERE]. Color me shocked
Blueshirt38 on
This chart is made to weirdly focus only on Asia, and doesn’t show history well at all. It would have made sense contextually to show that the USA was the top producer all the way up to the 1980s when it evened out with China for a decade, and plateaued until the 2010s before dropping significantly, while China’s production has only continued to grow.
This chart specifically focuses on who is the top producers now, and their specific plots on the graph, not showing the context around them. Simply showing “Rest of the world” as a big ass blob of grey consisting of 30% of the total production doesn’t give much actual information. Also: white background, plus Indonesia’s plot is white? Why?
I would not call this beautiful at all.
no_free_donuts on
So at this point, China has a significant technological edge in developing more clever ways to extract and use coal?
There’s also per capita, quite interesting as e.g. China and Germany are quite similar per capita
Fair-Working4401 on
China is basically producing all the shit for the rest of the world. Therefore, a lot of this energy is basically used in form of goods by the rest of the world…
Also, look at the Photovoltaik and Windenergy capacity of china – they outperform the rest of the world also there…
Mayafoe on
Great… and *since* 5 years ago? Why the old data?
kexzism on
How dare you lump USA with others /s
SuLiaodai on
In China, a lot of coal is used by rural people and people cooking at street stalls. They use a cylindrical, short tube of coal with holes in it.
![[OC] The Largest Coal Producers in 2023](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/b0xzj47m2p5f1-1229x1536.png "[OC] The Largest Coal Producers in 2023")
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Kinda surprised Australia isn’t in the top 3
So there’s a reason why people state per capita use. Anyways can you guess who the largest producer of Natural Gas is? It’s the U.S. and it’s not much better emissions wise.
Can’t believe there was a time where coal was 70-80% of our energy source.
Interested in the TWh scale, why not by mass? Original info comparing multiple energy sources?
By coal, you mean coal-powered electricity?
EDIT: OK I checked the source, it’s actual coal, but measured in energy content, including non-energy coal (e.g. for steelmaking).
You really need to break this down better to show historical data. The US was by far the largest producer for a century or so.
[edit] Found on Google Images:
https://preview.redd.it/ukpddmzl5p5f1.png?width=2401&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c822ecda77407ac91fceb9ba518ef79863eb46e
China was still using steam locomotives a couple years ago in the coal mines.
China will build anything and everything to quench their energy needs. They build the most renevable and most coal powerplants in the world.
The two countries with the most people are also the two countries with the most [INSERT ANYTHING HERE]. Color me shocked
This chart is made to weirdly focus only on Asia, and doesn’t show history well at all. It would have made sense contextually to show that the USA was the top producer all the way up to the 1980s when it evened out with China for a decade, and plateaued until the 2010s before dropping significantly, while China’s production has only continued to grow.
This chart specifically focuses on who is the top producers now, and their specific plots on the graph, not showing the context around them. Simply showing “Rest of the world” as a big ass blob of grey consisting of 30% of the total production doesn’t give much actual information. Also: white background, plus Indonesia’s plot is white? Why?
I would not call this beautiful at all.
So at this point, China has a significant technological edge in developing more clever ways to extract and use coal?
Maybe the consumption is more interesting:
https://www.worldometers.info/coal/coal-consumption-by-country/
There’s also per capita, quite interesting as e.g. China and Germany are quite similar per capita
China is basically producing all the shit for the rest of the world. Therefore, a lot of this energy is basically used in form of goods by the rest of the world…
Also, look at the Photovoltaik and Windenergy capacity of china – they outperform the rest of the world also there…
Great… and *since* 5 years ago? Why the old data?
How dare you lump USA with others /s
In China, a lot of coal is used by rural people and people cooking at street stalls. They use a cylindrical, short tube of coal with holes in it.