Well, it took only a minute for Spanish PM to conclude "no cyberattack." Of course, he's just fodder for the far-right Vox party of reform and Populism. Deform and Unpopulism and around we go like mice on a wheel. It's amazing how naturally mice take to the wheel.
I've heard that most people took it as a vacation, and most hospitals had 12 hours of generator backup so they would have stayed up. Blackouts aren't a joke but given how complex distribution is, it's really a miracle [or lots of work and cleverness from lots of people] they don't happen more.
If you keep the fridge door shut it should stay cold for quite a while. After 11.5 hours stuff in my fridge was still cold. And if power cut continues long term people have to make plans and govt would support I guess.
Yeah I know people can make do. But to say “well if you think about it, a country losing electricity isn’t all that bad” is some major privilege talking.
Especially interesting, considering they write about a potential sudden loss auf power around noon in south-west Spain.. pretty sure there was no solstice there yesterday and usually, the sun doesn’t stop shining suddenly..
It’s an entire web site written for scientists and science enthusiasts...! Though the forum folk, at least, still have their own mini-echo-chambers and blind spots, the articles are usually carefully written.
Sounds like a pretty good resource then, thanks! My knowledge of the field is superficial at best, but took some courses on energy economics at university so that sounds like it strikes the right balance for me..
I remember the last Texas Grid collapse a couple winters ago. They, including the governor of Texas, tried to pin it on Renewable Energy. When all the Dust had settled, they found it was clearly due to the Natural Gas pipelines freezing up due to the water content in them.
What you need to know is that Neoliberalism is failing and that it will eventually decompose into Authoritarian Libertarianism in the West. Thankfully, #BRICS will rapidly show the people who are bothering to look that there is a better way.
This has Russia and China written all over it, but instead of looking at how easily those countries can hack our infrastructure, let's look at scapegoats.
Imagine a cyber attack on Ontario grid and same thing would happen in Michigan Wisconsin and states connected to their grid. Same thing in BC and Washington state. Worst part: Hanford Nuclear Plant powered by Bonneville Power which is connected to BC Canada grid. And most of PNW.
Us power networks are in far worse shape than European ones thanks to all the lovely deregulation, it's estimated that a solar storm powerful to take out the entire us network for a week occurs every 25 years.
If you actually look at most Lithium backup batteries, they run down pretty quickly. They are good for maybe 8 hours if you are generous, but most of the installations are good for an hour or less. They are more of a buffer for a short term glitch in the system.
They are very good a providing short term inertia to the grid in the case of frequency issues. This helps other systems, coal, gas, etc stay on line preventing outages 🤔
Me watching Texas this summer in my AC with popcorn from my house multiple states away on the border between two separate, but heavily reliable power grids.
Although one gets pushed a bit during extreme temps the city does rolling black outs through manufacturing to keep residential power up.
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I’m in Portugal at the moment. I sort of enjoyed it, in a people talked to each other way.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/there-s-230-faults-occurred-whisker-labs-ceo-claims-recorded-spike-power-grid-issues-amid-la-wildfire-theories
Although one gets pushed a bit during extreme temps the city does rolling black outs through manufacturing to keep residential power up.