• worldwidewave
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    1611 months ago

    Did they merge Belarus and Ukraine on this map? Also Poland’s out here trying to be American.

  • @supertrucker@lemmy.ml
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    511 months ago

    In terms of area, aren’t the size of the various American grids roughly the same size as the ones that comprise the individual countries in Europe?

    • Codeviper828
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      13 months ago

      Yes, for a sense of scale, Pennsylvania (rectangular one in the top right) is about the size of England

  • Krafting
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    411 months ago

    So sad that they don’t have data for most of africa btw

  • @mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    211 months ago

    The bigger the grid the bigger the impact of failure (which does happen) and the harder to get it back up.

    You want a grid big enough to have some variety in use, generation, and weather, but not so big that one malfunction takes out everyone.

    Aside from Texas, the US grid is just fine.

    • @Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de
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      611 months ago

      Quite the opposite, bigger grids are much more stable. When faults happen, tiny subsets of the grid get disconnected from the rest, it does not take the whole thing down at all…

    • Carl
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      111 months ago

      The colors of the grids represent CO2 emissions