Todd Moss reports: No country with average income above $30,000 uses fewer than 4,000 kWh per person. The upper-right quadrant of the income-vs-electricity scatterplot is fully occupied. The lower-right—high income, low electricity—is empty, and stays empty no matter how efficient appliances get. Energy Hub founder Todd Moss puts a name to that reality and a number on the scale of what it means: rich countries use, on average, 67 times the electricity of poor ones. The United States and Nigeria will soon have roughly equal populations; the average American uses 84 times as much electricity as the average Nigerian. Efficiency helps at the margin. Abundance is the only answer.

The Empty Quadrant—Todd Moss, Eat More Electrons, May 2026