Sankey Diagrams » earth http://www.sankey-diagrams.com A Sankey diagram says more than 1000 pie charts Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:03:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Sun Energy Reloaded (or: Make it Look Nicer) http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/sun-energy-reloaded-or-make-it-look-nicer/ http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/sun-energy-reloaded-or-make-it-look-nicer/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:21:34 +0000 phineas http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/?p=92 This diagram of sun radiation being absorbed and reflected when hitting earth (from Solar Energy Facts website) is a rather weak remake of the original Nasa diagram.

I find the floating powerpointish arrows kind of disturbing, and with the arrow magnitudes not to scale, would even call it misleading. Took the time to prepare two new versions of it (actually I am beta testing the new version 2.0 of e!Sankey at the moment – so this was a nice little test case).

Sankey diagram of solar radiation hitting earth and being reflected and absorbedSankey diagram of solar radiation hitting earth and being reflected and absorbed

The first version sticks more to the original idea of the diagram shown above, but the arrow magnitudes are corrected and to scale. The second version is closer to the original ‘Breakdown of the incoming Solar Energy’ diagram by User A1 that can be found on Wikicommons. The latter one has the flow for energy being absorbed by atmosphere (33 PW) branching off as the first arrow horizontally.

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