@infobeautiful there's one thing Mercator is good for: timezones. For all other purposes, there are better projections.

@brichapman according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Uruguay 29% of Uruguay electricity comes from hydro plants (and it seems that just one of them - Salto Grande - amounts to about 20%). Not every country is so lucky as to be able to build large dams…