https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/deContents © 2025 <a href="mailto:dzu@member.fsf.org">Detlev Zundel</a> Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:07:55 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/de/posts/electricity-map.html?pk_campaign=feedDetlev Zundel<div><p>During all the political discussions for the need of clean power, I always wondered about real data for this domain, i.e. how much of our electrical power is coming from what sources. As it wasn't that important, I never even tried to find any source for this and continued to live in ignorance. By sheer accident the situation changed recently as I learned about the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.electricitymap.org/">Electricity Map</a> web site answering exactly this question in real time. The site focuses on the release of the green house gas CO2 to visualize the data.</p> <p>It is very instructive to study the individual countries, their power mix and the trade of electricity across the borders. A few questions that popped into my mind when visiting it for the first time were pretty easy to answer:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p>Why does Norway have such an excellent CO2 balance?</p></li> <li><p>Why is France also doing very good? Ok, so the problems of nuclear power plants are beyond the data of this page.</p></li> <li><p>What is the installed capacity of solar and wind energy in Germany compared to nuclear power plants?</p></li> </ul> <img alt="Electricity Map Screenshot" class="align-center" src="https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/images/electricity-map-screenshot.png"> <p><a href="https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/de/posts/electricity-map.html?pk_campaign=feed">Weiterlesen…</a> (1 min verbleiben zum Lesen)</p></div>https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/de/posts/electricity-map.htmlTue, 23 Jan 2018 17:21:18 GMT