# LLNL has released its latest energy Sankey

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 2, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llnl-has-released-its-latest-energy-sankey/1033549 "2026-10-02T23:20:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llnl-has-released-its-latest-energy-sankey/1033549/1 "2026-10-02T23:20:26Z")

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[![](https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/2026-08/2024-us-energy-flowchart-homepage.jpg) ](https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/2026-08/2024-us-energy-flowchart-homepage.jpg)

Since people have found these interesting before. From [https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/](https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/)

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llnl-has-released-its-latest-energy-sankey/1033549/2 "2026-10-02T23:42:33Z")

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People keep talking about the big advances in wind and solar, but on the chart it is still pretty small.

But coal has definitely declined from the older charts.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llnl-has-released-its-latest-energy-sankey/1033549/3 "2026-10-03T02:48:20Z")

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Why don’t they break out agriculture separately?

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llnl-has-released-its-latest-energy-sankey/1033549/4 "2026-10-03T03:42:16Z")

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It’ll be interesting to see how this changes after a few years of AI fossil fuel data centers… if we can even get reliable data anymore.

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**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llnl-has-released-its-latest-energy-sankey/1033549/5 "2026-10-03T11:14:44Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> Why don’t they break out agriculture separately?

Why would they?

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llnl-has-released-its-latest-energy-sankey/1033549/6 "2026-10-03T11:17:09Z")

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Because agriculture is an energy intensive sector if the ecinomy.

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**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llnl-has-released-its-latest-energy-sankey/1033549/7 "2026-10-03T11:24:19Z")

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It’s like 2%.

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**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llnl-has-released-its-latest-energy-sankey/1033549/8 "2026-10-03T11:27:38Z")

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Saul Griffith / Otherlab put together a much more granular chart here but they didn’t have funding to update it:

> **[Energy Literacy](https://departmentof.energy/)**