It is a great tool for terrorist attacks: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgrpzn6gz4o
Open Infrastructure Map
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#82It is a great tool for terrorist attacks: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgrpzn6gz4o
So is Wikipedia, the internet in general, the library, Home Depot, a rental vehicle, or a basic working knowledge of chemistry. What’s the point in stating the obvious?
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#83Is this a guide for Russian saboteurs?
No, it’s a map of infrastructure.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty much all electricity markets worldwide set the unit price based on the the cost of the "marginal" (most expensive) generator running during each time period. It's a weirdly common misconception that the UK is unique in doing this. If you paid generators what they bid, then they're incentivised to manipulate their bids to try and make the most money, distorting the market. Almost all the wind farms and many sol…
>Pretty much all electricity markets worldwide set the unit price based on the the cost of the "marginal" (most expensive) generator running during each time period Indeed. This is inherent failing of the use of auctions for setting price. While using auctions is a laudable goal, in reality it is not very efficient and easily gamed. Having a central purchaser model is not idea from a ideological standpoint but clearl…
Enron made a ton of money gaming energy auctions until it all fell apart.
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2021/09/30/20-years-later-...
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#85The map for Australia is interesting. Is this missing data? See no infrastructure for Alice Springs in the interior of Australia.
Yeah, I see some data in my city where a plant was closed and demolished 4 years ago and is still listed on there.
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#87It 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 looked and how the equipment was mounted. It seemed like no two pylons were alike.
Based on this map, it looks like all of our power comes from hydroelectric.
I love this site. I just wish it was more complete. There are some major water and natural gas pipelines that aren't recorded. Maybe in time.
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#88I 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.
I know I will never live to see a site like this that documents all of the innards of airports. Airport layouts are my special interest.
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#89When 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…
Texas is actually on ~4 different grids. I live north of Houston and I'm on MISO. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ERCOT-geographic-footpri...
That's not what that image means at all. If you look closely, you'll even see 3 additional colors, plus white, from the 4 I'm guessing you identified.
Those are ERCOT load zones, a distinct concept and all within the ERCOT interconnection (grid).
On the markets side, Texas is made up of ERCOT, and then has portions in (descending order) MISO, SPP, and the non-market West.
In terms of "grids" Texas is mostly ERCOT, and then the Eastern Interconnection with a small smidge of Western Interconnection in the far west in El Paso Electric's territory.
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#90It is a great tool for terrorist attacks: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgrpzn6gz4o
I'm pretty sure ICE has access to all this information already.