Wind Generated Power
A couple weeks ago, I posted Graham Curry’s visualization about the potential of wind energy in West Virginia. This is another of his visualizations narrating the generation and distribution of electricity. It depicts the mechanics within a wind generator, explaining how wind is transformed into electricity, and then illustrates the movement of that electricity to the locations at which it will be used.
It’s a well-executed diagram that matches the visual style of the other visualizations in the series. The large arrow representing the wind gives a clear indication of where to start, and the narration smoothly progresses in a rectangular spiral that ends with a representation of 600 homes on a power grid—the number of homes that can be sustained by a single wind generator. One major point of the entire piece is that the generators will easy plug into the infrastructure already in place.
