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Re: Open Infrastructure Map

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Post by seb1204 »

yrro wrote: post #68
yabones wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I'm remembering correctly, it's because the previous government set the price floor to the average natural gas price, artificially propping up their north sea oil & gas industry that's been noncompetitive for decades. Even though they can make cheap energy, consumers get screwed because of national security concerns. Unfortunately I don't have a source, and would appreciate a UK national with better understanding…

https://www.electricitybills.uk/ shows a breakdown of the components of consumer energy bills. It's not as simple as saying "it's expensive because of gas", though pricing based on the marginal production cost is one component.

Thanks, interesting. The price almost doubled between 2021 and 2022. Has been coming down since.

Re: Open Infrastructure Map

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Post by jh54 »

lnsru wrote: post #3
efskap wrote: post #2

I find this site so fascinating, seeing how all the massive power lines are hooked up to far-away power plants and gradually have their voltage stepped down as they connect to consumers. All the undersea cables and pipelines I didn't know about.

It’s really interesting how perception of openness changes over time. During cold war publishing this information would send one directly to gulag.

In the EU all that data, including high res LiDAR data has to be made publicly available by the responsible authorities. also high res aerial imagery which with the lidar together you can use to build a 3D model of the surface and ground of military buildings/area in blender, because even that in many cases is not excluded or censored. It’s already used for “criminal activities” by metal detectorists and grave robbers a lot haha but it shouldn’t be too hard for foreign intelligence to render some maps for egoshooters from them to train their soldiers for missions in specific locations

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Post by [deleted] »

333c wrote: post #19
arjvik wrote: post #13

When I lived in Texas, we had a massive storm in winter of 2021 leaving many without power for a week. I was told that Texas maintained its own energy grid independent from the rest of the nation’s eastern and western grids, and supposedly only had a handful of high-voltage DC lines running between Texas’s and the rest of the nation’s. Supposedly this was why we couldn’t rely on excess capacity from anywhere else in…

More info on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection > The Texas Interconnection is maintained as a separate grid for political, rather than technical reasons

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Re: Open Infrastructure Map

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Post by yakshaving_jgt »

antonvs wrote: post #15
Towaway69 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Berlin, Germany just had a blackout because a left from centre organisation decided to set an electric exchange on fire. Right over new years and at a very cold time of year. Apparently the data on where the exchange was and how it would affect the surrounding neighbourhoods was openly available. The neighbourhoods affect were largely affluent. It’s probably also the reason why this is being reshared.

You can drive around an area you’re interested in, or look at satellite or aerial photos, to find these facilities. “Security by obscurity” is no more useful here than it is in software systems.

Security by obscurity is actually useful, to some degree.

Re: Open Infrastructure Map

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Post by itsamario »

DataJunkie wrote: post #87

It may be my autism, but as a kid, I was always fascinated by infrastructure, particularly power lines. My dad once drove me down an Edison Road up to the top of a mountain just to see where the power line went. We had to stop at the top. I could see my neighborhood from a view that I had never seen before. Today I would consider it beautiful. Back then it was weird! I had a fascination with how different the poles l…

Yep and its why some of us look for careers that let us work in rarely seen places, and devices most dont know exist, but are imperative to modern society.
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