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The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.
damn I didn’t even realize that this was a thing.
Power grids are very interlinked, it helps with grid stability. It would be weird if they weren’t.
This is a fun map: app.electricitymaps.com
See also: Texas
I know these things in the back of my head, but I never think about them. like during the opening shots of the second Gulf War, when they use those cruise missiles that didn’t have warheads, they just had a bunch of carbon filament wires to dump on their power substations; like that makes total sense but I had no clue that we did shit like that
Was the carbon filament to short circuit things?
exactly
Interlinked