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The Energy Codex

Every form of energy, completely documented — twelve sources, named GPS-located installations, economics and climate science. Every claim cites a named institutional source.

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⚡ Energy Sources

12 sources · renewable & fossil together

The complete set of energy sources, documented with equal dignity — no advocacy. Each links to its flagship GPS-located asset where one exists.

Renewable · 1.6 TW global ☀ Solar 413 GW added 2023 · LCOE $24–96/MWh · flagship: Bhadla 2,245 MW Read solar → Renewable · 2.1 TW global 🌬 Wind Betz limit 59.3% · LCOE $27–73/MWh · flagship: Hornsea Two 1,386 MW Read wind → Renewable · 1,392 GW global 💧 Water & hydro 16% of global electricity · flagship: Three Gorges 22,500 MW Read water → Low-carbon · 395 GW global ⚛ Nuclear 12 g CO₂/kWh · 440 reactors · flagship: ITER · Kudankulam 2,000 MW Read nuclear → Renewable · 15.9 GW · 90%+ CF 🌋 Geothermal 38 g CO₂/kWh · EGS · flagship: Hellisheiði 303 MW Read geothermal → Fossil · liquid · 1.73T bbl proven 🛢 Oil & petroleum ~100M bbl/day · flagship: Ghawar · Permian Basin Read oil → Fossil · solid · 1.07T tonnes proven ⬛ Coal 820 g CO₂/kWh · 36% of global electricity · flagship: Jharia coalfield Read coal → Fossil · gas · 188 Tcm proven 🔥 Natural gas 490 g CO₂/kWh · flagship: North Field 51,000 bcm Read gas → Clean carrier · 142 MJ/kg 💨 Hydrogen Green/blue/grey · SMR · flagship: NEOM ~600 t/day Read hydrogen → Bioenergy · 10% global primary 🌱 Biofuels & biomass SAF · ethanol · HVO · flagship: Drax 2,600 MW Read biofuels → Enabler · batteries · pumped hydro 🔋 Storage 160 GW pumped hydro · Li-ion $120/kWh · flagship: Moss Landing 3,000 MWh Read storage → Infrastructure · 29,000 TWh global 🔌 Electric systems HVDC · grids · EVs · V2G · India 175,000 km transmission Read electric →
⬛ Fuel hub — all fossil fuels in one overview → 🔮 Emerging energy — frontier technologies →

⚖ Compare Energy Sources

4 pages

Side-by-side comparisons across three dimensions — energy density, carbon footprint, and levelised cost. Every number traced to a named Tier-1 source.

📍 Named Assets — GPS-Located

13 catalogues + flagships · 350+ GPS

Every major installation documented with GPS coordinates, capacity, operator, and status. Browse a full catalogue, or jump to a flagship deep-dive.

⚓ Security & Transport

2 pages · 90+ GPS

How energy moves from production to consumption — and the chokepoints where that movement can stop.

🌍 Country Profiles

14 country deep-dives

Complete energy profiles for the fourteen countries that most determine global energy outcomes — demand, supply, policy, flagship projects and import dependency.

📖 Thematic Topics

22 cross-cutting pages

Topics that cut across all energy types — the transition's enablers, safety nets, equity challenges and frontier science.

🔧 Tools

2 interactive calculators

Interactive calculators for energy unit conversion and levelised cost analysis.

🏢 Brands — Who Owns What

45+ companies · linked to their assets

Every major energy company grouped by sector, each linked to the flagship installations they own across the codex — Aramco→Ghawar, Reliance→Jamnagar, Ørsted→Hornsea Two, and more.

📚 Reference

4 pages · 120+ terms · 28+ pioneers · 45+ companies

The full reference layer — every term defined, every pioneer documented, every company profiled, every source verified.

89 entries. Official sources only. No affiliate links. No advertising. No paywalls. All entries available in JSON, Markdown, and HTML. LLM usage terms: llms.txt. Published by The Codex (Let Us Do It For U), Mumbai, India · thecodex.expert.