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The U.S. Power Grid

48 points surprisetalk 3 days ago 17 comments

voiper1 2 hours ago | parent

Whoa this looks like it could be a game.

Is there a game like this??

alexpotato 2 hours ago | parent

It's called Factorio.

https://www.factorio.com/

pyrale 1 hour ago | parent

Factorio isn't really relevant, its electricity simulation subsystem is pretty bland.

cowlevel 26 minutes ago | parent

indeed, it's literally just total consumption divided by total production

evrimoztamur 1 hour ago | parent

I developed one around two years ago, you can try it out at https://electrobillion.evrim.zone/

It's a fictionalised version of the grid, but teaches some of the basics well!

amelius 1 hour ago | parent

CircuitJs, but you have to draw your own grid first.

https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html

bh08net 1 hour ago | parent

Steam engine simulator kinda

phaser 1 hour ago | parent

I've been working on adding energy mechanics to Microlandia. right now i have added solar, wind, nuclear and coal power and houses, datacenters, factories etc use real-world usage. there is power selling and power buying and a score for carbon footprint. There's still a lot I want to do and I will add it gradually, like: rooftop solar panels, different regions with different sun/wind resources, grid and station failures, and still finishing the fact checking of energy usage for all the buildings.

https://microlandia.city

https://microlandia.city/docs/energy

ironhaven 1 hour ago | parent

Why are there 5 different animations for switching between light mode and dark mode. I guess whoever made this is very interested in the big dark mode button in the top right corner.

fwip 39 minutes ago | parent

Because it's vibe-coded, and the "whoever" is really a "whatever."

jrmg 1 hour ago | parent

What I thought this would be:

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/five_minutes

(Not a comment on the quality of the submission - it's also fascinating).

tonymet 25 minutes ago | parent

in reality, that solar field needs to be 80x the size of the nuclear plant. so about 30 LCD displays worth of area to produce that amount.

deadbabe 13 minutes ago | parent

I thought this was about the actual US Power Grid, which is hilariously vulnerable. Right now you could ask your agent to crawl Shodan and trivially shut down a small power plant in Puerto Rico if you wanted.

olwmc 12 minutes ago | parent

This is cute and interesting but I would really prefer, as maybe a general rule for vibecoded projects, that we try to not just place the thing you've built onto the internet, but also give us context for your context. This is what READMEs were for before we decided to turn those into a workspace for LLMs

Like yes, I can infer a lot about what this is, what it's doing, etc. but its trivial to get claude et. al to make a one-time onboarding screen that actually gives me an idea about what this is supposed to be, how realistic it is, what the numbers mean, what the features are, etc.

Edit: I say this in particular because I FIND THIS PROJECT INTERESTING! I WANNA KNOW WHAT IT DOES!!

jeffbee 1 minute ago | parent

"Data centers run flat out around the clock", a statement that is not true, has never been true, has been advanced by know-nothing writers in non-technical outlets, and I guess is now encoded in Claude or whatever slop cannon created this site.