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Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on.

Thanks to the work of thousands of researchers around the world who dedicate their lives to it, we often have a good understanding of how it is possible to make progress against the large problems we are facing. The world has the resources to do much better and reduce the suffering in the world.

We believe that a key reason why we fail to achieve the progress we are capable of is that we do not make enough use of this existing research and data: the important knowledge is often stored in inaccessible databases, locked away behind paywalls and buried under jargon in academic papers.

The goal of our work is to make the knowledge on the big problems accessible and understandable. As we say on our homepage, Our World in Data’s mission is to publish the “research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems”.

Levelized cost of energy by technology, WorldLevelized cost of energy by technology, World

The average cost per unit of energy generated across the lifetime of a new power plant. This data is expressed in US dollars per kilowatt-hour. It is adjusted for inflation but does not account for differences in the cost of living between countries.

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how come you quoted the entire homepage of the site?

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homepage? I'm not sure if I understood your question correctly. However, if I did, the idea was to share this fantastic source of data in charts. I then simply included an example. I wasn't even going to share the example :)

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the chart is cool, glad you shared it - i just don’t understand how the top text is related to the energy cost chart

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It is not related. The quoted text is the about section of the website. If you go to the website, you will notice that it has dozens/hundreds of interesting charts. As I said before, I was just going to share the website without any charts, but then I decided to include an example.

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i had basically the same discussion with @Roll the other day.

i see that there are lots of interesting charts, but the example at the bottom of your post is so much more powerful. i just don’t get why 80% of the post is taken up with the “About Us” section of the Our World in Data website.

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I hadn't seen that post

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