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Base load, a Common card
The base load is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over a span of time, for example, one week.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 100
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Ranked #2,764 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Base load quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Base load card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ of demand, varying throughout a day, is met by intermittent sources together with dispatchable generation or energy storage.
Answer
remainder. The remainder of demand, varying throughout a day, is met by intermittent sources together with dispatchable generation or energy storage. From the Base load article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Graphic matroid. Graphic matroid 62 · Base load 58 · Coucal 55 · Vitis coignetiae 48 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This demand can be met by unvarying power plants or dispatchable generation, depending on which approach has the best mix of cost, availability and reliability in any particular market.
- The remainder of demand, varying throughout a day, is met by intermittent sources together with dispatchable generation or energy storage.
- Power plants that do not change their power output quickly, such as some large coal or nuclear plants, are generally called baseload power plants.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Base load article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Base load
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Base load (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : original work by User:Stratocles, facelift by ChNPP, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
