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Yeah, cool and all, but what are the blue areas?
Eel.
What about China?
It would be interesting (if the data was available) to see the energy consumption in Europe at that time: windmills, horses drawing carts, cooking fires, etc.
Visited a traditional water-powered flour mill recently. Very cool, beautiful building, and the end product makes really delicious bread and pasta. Wholemeal, not too fine, nothing in it but grain. Perfection.
From the water flow, drop and wheel turning rate, I made the maximum possible power as about 5 kW. Probably optimistic to think you’d get a quarter of that in practice. Still, that’s a huge amount compared to what a person can produce, and it’s ‘on tap’ 24 hours a day. That kind of thing does explain why, in the days before electrification, that having ‘the right landscape’ made some areas really wealthy and some others not. Exploitable renewable energy, what a concept.
So yeah, your proposed map would be really interesting. The Romans burned down whole forests to make steel - you simply couldn’t refine it in a place without. It would be fascinating to see the map of “power resources” and the resulting industries, even if it would be very hypothetical.
This map is very inaccurate, as it neglects those who had consumed electrical energy through lightning striking them. That cooked flesh didn’t come for free!
That’s not consumption, that’s agony.
It also neglects rubbing on some fabrics and shocking friends and family with the charged static electricity.
Those people were condemned as witches. Best not to think about it.
We have a bit of electricity in our nervous systems too, yes?
Yeah, there’s electricity in the brain, for example.
They just took the aggregate population, and rounded down based on kWh.
it is not completely useless as it seems to give an accurate portrayal of geopolitical boundaries at the time.
I’m pretty sure the Crown of Aragon wasn’t part of France in 1507 so I wouldn’t trust the rest the map either.
I’m so happy that they put the 1507 borders on. Someone spent some real effort and thought on this completely pointless thing.
I’m guessing they just found a map from the time period and added the electricity bit as the meme. Very little effort involved.
But still effort
Agreed, I just wish they’d labeled that countries, or whatever the equivalents were
It would be useful to see electricity consumption by source. A breakdown by hydro, fossil fuels, nuclear…etc would be more useful.
i dunno. with all those carpets and tapestries, there must have been some static sparks somewhere!
Also lightning strikes. Back in the day fires from various natural sources, including lightning strikes, were used to keep fire going, so that counts!
Western Sahara with the rare reporting in.
