US renewable electricity output

Between 2005 and 2021, the US added more trained Catholic exorcists and generated more renewable electricity, and the two numbers have risen together (r = 0.957) in a combination that sounds like the setup for a theological environmental policy paper nobody has yet written. Wind turbines in Texas; rite-of-exorcism seminars in Chicago. Both expand quietly. Both claim, in their way, to clean up after older power sources.

US exorcist training programs grew from under 20 formally designated positions to over 125 across American dioceses; US renewable electricity output climbed from about 350 TWh to over 940 TWh in the same window, with wind passing hydro as the largest category and utility-scale solar finally becoming meaningful toward the end of the period. Both are slow institutional responses to long-standing demand that finally became unignorable. The diocesan bureaucracy and the Department of Energy both, in their own pace, expanded capacity for spiritual and physical emergencies that had been growing for decades.

A turbine spins. A rite is learned. Two kinds of power generation, expanded during the same decade, quietly.