A model of the world energy system
86,622 nodes and 197,068 weighted links.
Open the atlas About the atlas How it works
The model at a glance: what it contains, how it is weighted, and how it behaves. All figures.
Energy
Industrial heat electrification break-even
Cost of heat from an electric boiler against a gas boiler in Texas. The gap between the fuel prices decides the outcome. Break-even electricity is about 1.5 cents per kilowatt hour at $3.50 gas, and capital cost moves it very little.
Battery revenue simulator
Linear program over 8,760 hours. Value flattens above four hours of storage duration, which is the expected result, now measured.
Climate research
The true climate cost
Twenty products taken apart stage by stage, with the allocation on every edge and the lifetime of every vehicle exposed rather than buried. Change the route and it recomputes instead of looking up an answer somebody prepared.
Other work
Skylines, played
A skyline and a spectrum analyser are the same picture, so the picture is played. Twenty-seven cities built from real building heights and coordinates; turn on the spot and the sound turns with you. What is measured, what is assumed and what is invented are each labelled.
Longevity quotient
How long an animal lives, against how long an animal of its size should live. Body mass predicts lifespan across fourteen orders of magnitude; the quotient is what is left once that relationship is divided out.
The bookshelf
A wallpaper built from a Goodreads export: your books as drawn spines, or as a wall of their real covers brought to one finish. The CSV is parsed in the browser and never leaves it.
Built with Python, Julia and public data. All source is downloadable.