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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!
It also neglects rubbing on some fabrics and shocking friends and family with the charged static electricity.
Ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, used electric fish for medical treatments.
Thales of Miletus discovered static electricity (600 BC) by rubbing amber and observing its ability to attract light objects.
Seek the truth, always.
That’s not consumption, that’s agony.
i dunno. with all those carpets and tapestries, there must have been some static sparks somewhere!
It would be useful to see electricity consumption by source. A breakdown by hydro, fossil fuels, nuclear…etc would be more useful.
This is fake. I’ve seen maps from that time, and they looked a lot different than this one.
Western Sahara with the rare reporting in.
Rabbit hole time.
So there actually was some electrical research being conducted in 1705, but it was all static electricity. It could be argued that there was a non-zero amount generated and consumed, but it’s really, really small. ChatGPT threw out a value of “20 milliwatts” for this, citing that it was “about the power of a dim LED”.
I think it really depends on how much eel they were eating.
This reminds me of the classic. What did communists use before candles?
A: Injection molded siliconeWhat about China?
