Niall McCarthy on Forbes has the eye catching headline Solar Employs More People In U.S. Electricity Generation Than Oil, Coal And Gas Combined, which sounds exciting. Unfortunately, it’s undifferentiated data – that is, it’s just a snapshot headcount. I would be more interested to know how many of those are considered to be permanent jobs, vs one time construction jobs, for example. But all we get is this:
Not exceptionally useful. Definitely a political article masquerading as a data article. It might have been even more interesting to see, say, GW / worker, so we could make some quasi-faux judgments concerning the human efficiency in each industry.
And, in ten to twenty years, a meaningful enumeration of robots employed in the industry may become commonplace.
But this? Don’t look behind the curtain, apparently.
