Power Grid
System Operator
System Operator
The cheapest source of electrical energy production for a power grid.
What is coal?
Of the climate factors causing humans to migrate, this would be the least likely to cause large scale migrations.
What is "severe storms"?
The climate factor that we encountered when farming with limited water sources.
What is drought stress?
The global ecological patterns created by sustained direct human interactions with ecosystems.
What is an anthrome?
An "Energy Supply" factor whose modification to highly taxed could lower projected temperature increase the most to +5.7 F.
What is coal?
The most limited renewable energy source due to it needed to be near an ocean.
What is a tide generator?
The climate changing seminatural lands into places with less than 25 cm of rainfall due to drought.
What is desertification?
A piece of technology that aids a row crop farmer in times of drought stress.
What is drip irrigation or grey water irrigation?
Areas with a relatively low level of human land use (<20% of land used for crops, pasture, or urban settlements).
What are seminatural lands?
An "infrastructure" factor whose modification to highly taxed could lower projected temperature increase the most to +5.4 F.
What is highly increased building efficiency?
The energy source that would be most efficient to use to power the grid and meet demand.
What is natural gas?
In Syria, this caused climate and conflict along with the climate factor of drought which depleted agricultural lands in the northern part of the country.
What is overpopulation?
The crop with the highest demand on water.
What is beef production?
Areas of rural human populations, towns, and small cities with intensive agriculture. Most food produced in this anthrome is consumed locally.
What are villages?
A "Other Source of Greenhouse Gases" factor whose modification to highly reduced could lower projected temperature increase the most to +5.5 C.
What are waste and leakage?
The need of battery back up would be greatest for this energy source to power the grid.
What is solar or wind?
2 water woes associated with climate change induced human migration.
What are flooding and drought?
A crop with the lowest demand for water to raise.
What are lettuce and strawberries?
From 1700 to 2000 humans have converted most wildlands on Earth to these 2 anthromes.
What are rangelands and croplands?
An "Carbon Removal" factor whose modification to high growth could lower projected temperature increase the most to +5.6 C.
What is nature based carbon removal?
A combination of these three sources would best diversify the power grid in the simulation.
What are gas, hydroelectric, and tide generators?
These 2 factors are the root cause of rising seas due to climate change.
What is meltwater, from ice sheets and glaciers, and the expansion of warmer ocean water?
A plant based crop grown in Arkansas but not on the California based simulation that would be incredibly high in water demand and thus is not grown in California in large amounts.
What is rice?
An area on Earth that has converted nearly all of its land to villages and is in immanent danger of a massive human migration.
What is India?
The single source that could be most impactful in the reduction of greenhouse gases and lower projected temperature increase by 2100.
What is more efficient building design?