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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17714161

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Source - The colors of the grids represent CO2 emissions

The title is a reference to the 2021 Texas power crisis

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[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

Quite the opposite, bigger grids are much more stable. When faults happen, tiny subsets of the grid get disconnected from the rest, it does not take the whole thing down at all...