On his Facebook, Sen. Bernie Sanders uploaded the following graphic*:
The Senator is trying to spin this as an argument for renewable energy, but in doing so he confuses costs and benefits. Ironically, he makes an extremely strong case against renewables:
Looking at this chart, we see approximately the same number of jobs in coal and nuclear. Renewables have a considerably higher number of jobs. But their output are quite different. According to the EIA, coal produces approximately 16% of our energy consumption (or about 15.6 quadrillion BTU). Nuclear power is ~9% (or ~8.8 quadrillion BTU). Renewables are ~10% (or 9.8 quadrillion BTU).
What does this mean for resource efficiency? Quite a lot. The average worker in coal produces 2.1e^11 BTU. The average nuclear worker produces 1.1e^11 BTU. The average renewable worker produces 1.8e^10 BTU. That means the average coal worker is 1033.92% more efficient than the average renewable worker!…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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