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   Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:18:21 JST Eira Tansey

   even though i've had my ham license for a while (which requires passing a test that gets into electrical theory), trying to wrap my brain around how the electrical grid works is always a mind-bending exercise (i find the concept of load balancing totally fascinating). This is such a helpful primer about why scientifically and economically, electricity is not like other consumer commodities https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/11/14/which-power-plant-does-my-electricity-come-from

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:19:46 JST Rocketman

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     @TeamMidwest Yes! The power grid is one of the most underrated things out there, along with water infrastructure.

     We tend to assume that water comes out of the tap, and that the lights come on when we flip a switch. We ignore that these things are actually fairly close to magic.

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:27:07 JST Rocketman

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     @TeamMidwest At work, I sometimes bump into people who build electrical grids.

     It's truly a different world.

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     Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:27:08 JST Eira Tansey

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     • Rocketman

     @slothrop I've been reading Gretchen Bakke's the Grid and it's blowing my mind