User talk:Leftbrain847

/* Inaccuracy in the 2nd Sentence */ new section
Recommended change: Hydroelectricity currently accounts for 6% of the world's electricity production [A]. In 2015, it was estimated that hydropower infrastructure had the capacity to account for 16.6% of the world's total electricity and 70% of all renewable electricity,[B] ...

Hey there,

I'm unable to edit this page since it's semi-protected, but I believe there's a mistake in the second sentence. Citing 'source A' below, I believe hydroelectricity generates roughly 6% of the world's electricity, not the 16.6% listed (though I certainly wish that were the case). The current 16.6% figure comes from paragraph 1 of page 18 of 'source B' (the same source the author listed). This essentially says that by the end of 2015, infrastructure was in place to produce 16.6% of the world's electricity.

Source A https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption

Source B https://web.archive.org/web/20190124223915/https://www.ren21.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/GSR_2016_Full_Report_REN21.pdf

Thanks :)
 * Hi. I happened to see this while patrolling recent edits to Wikipedia. Comments like this are best placed, as an edit request, on the talk page of the article you want edited (which I'm guessing is Talk:Hydroelectricity), where people are more likely to see it. The article is semi-protected but the talk page is not . TornadoLGS (talk) 02:14, 10 December 2021 (UTC)