Mapping Energy: Diamonds housing nuclear decay for electricity

Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste into Diamond Batteries That’ll Last for Thousands of Years http://flip.it/uWDjnU

Mapping Power - Wind power generation expansion in the US

This Chart Shows How Quickly Wind Power Has Caught On http://flip.it/6uvtc1

Mapping Oil Production - More Crude than you think

Found this via the Map Room with credits to Market Place (research by Adam Popescu).

Quick Cut & Paste:
" .... On the one-year anniversary of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we take a look at the future of crude as we enter an era of "tough oil." This interactive map - and our coverage below - examines how world crude oil production has shifted over the years, particularly from 1960 to 2010, as oil producers search for new locations and methods for extracting oil...."

Full article & interactive map - click here.

Scaling energy consumption - a video to "turn it off"

Turn it Off from Nigel Upchurch on Vimeo.


Nice example of scaling the mundane for global impact.