alt Hacker NewsThe dirty secret is of course that the Danish power grid would be totally unusable without the base power provided from Sweden and Norway.
They almost suffered a catastrophic shutdown a year or two ago and the situation has not improved
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ceejayoz • last Monday at 6:22 PM
Is that really a "dirty secret"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous... exists for good reason.
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tensor • last Monday at 6:22 PM
The only dirty secret is that humans are happy to kill future generations as the effects of the oil economy will only minimally affect the people alive today.
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matthewdgreen • last Monday at 6:39 PM
That's like pointing out that Rhode Island isn't designed to be a self-sufficient grid.
expedition32 • yesterday at 7:05 PM
Yeah and entire countries would shut down without LNG and oil- it's almost as if we are all living in an interconnected world!
The Nordic grid was designed to work as an interconnected system though - Danish wind exports and Norwegian/Swedish hydro imports balance each other out. Calling it a "dirty secret" makes it sound like a failure when it's actually the intended architecture. Denmark is frequently a net electricity exporter.