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Comment · 1 year ago
There are five synchronous areas in Europe, the largest one being the synchronous grid of continental Europe [1].
Each national grids has interconnections with other grids and you can measure the flow of power through these interconnections to know who is sending electricity or getting electricity from neighbours.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...
Comment · 1 year ago
It shows a much finer grained representation of the whole transportation network. So you have much better idea of where is electricity produced and consumed within each country.
When it comes to figuring out what the electricity mix is made of, electricitymaps is clearer.
Comment · 1 year ago
When looking at France, at a zoom level where one can see the whole country, all the green dots are located next to nuclear power plants. It's a good reminder that the french grid is mostly powered by nuclear.
It'd be nice to see the same map over summer to see if the different electric mix then gives birth to a different map.
Comment · 1 year ago
"To navigate the future, it can help to anticipate the unlikely"
Comment · 2 years ago
Python was the first programming language whose primary focus was not scientific applications, i.e. not MATLAB,Fortran or R, to have support for numeric arrays (matrices) via ndarray and then Numpy, while still being fairly approachable for the scientific community. If Travis Oliphant had picked Ruby for implementing ndarray, maybe would be the defacto language for data science.