Electricity Consumption

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• Phineaz@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Also great: A heads-per-capita count of every country!

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• RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This map is very inaccurate, as it neglects those who had consumed electrical energy through lightning striking them. That cooked flesh didn’t come for free!

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It also neglects rubbing on some fabrics and shocking friends and family with the charged static electricity.

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Those people were condemned as witches. Best not to think about it.

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    • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We have a bit of electricity in our nervous systems too, yes?

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  • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s not consumption, that’s agony.

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  • Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They just took the aggregate population, and rounded down based on kWh.

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• tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it is not completely useless as it seems to give an accurate portrayal of geopolitical boundaries at the time.

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  • jayemar@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Agreed, I just wish they’d labeled that countries, or whatever the equivalents were

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• hanke@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, cool and all, but what are the blue areas?

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  • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Eel.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It would be interesting (if the data was available) to see the energy consumption in Europe at that time: windmills, horses drawing carts, cooking fires, etc.

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  • addie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Visited a traditional water-powered flour mill recently. Very cool, beautiful building, and the end product makes really delicious bread and pasta. Wholemeal, not too fine, nothing in it but grain. Perfection.

    From the water flow, drop and wheel turning rate, I made the maximum possible power as about 5 kW. Probably optimistic to think you’d get a quarter of that in practice. Still, that’s a huge amount compared to what a person can produce, and it’s ‘on tap’ 24 hours a day. That kind of thing does explain why, in the days before electrification, that having ‘the right landscape’ made some areas really wealthy and some others not. Exploitable renewable energy, what a concept.

    So yeah, your proposed map would be really interesting. The Romans burned down whole forests to make steel - you simply couldn’t refine it in a place without. It would be fascinating to see the map of “power resources” and the resulting industries, even if it would be very hypothetical.

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• nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It would be useful to see electricity consumption by source. A breakdown by hydro, fossil fuels, nuclear…etc would be more useful.

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What about China?

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• ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i dunno. with all those carpets and tapestries, there must have been some static sparks somewhere!

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Western Sahara with the rare reporting in.

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