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Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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amval wrote: post #116

Apparently this spans more countries? Very strange. Possibly a cyberattack or sabotage? Growing up in Spain I've never experienced anything like this (not there at the moment, but friends have told me over WhatsApp).

Possibly some kind of rare cascade failure where it might have been on the edge for a while, and some small event happened that tripped things, similar to the american northeast blackout in 2003. High demand, plus a power station going offline meant more demand on some interconnects, which shorted on trees and were cut off, putting more load on other lines until the entire system collapsed

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Post by littlestymaar »

Loughla wrote: post #120
ksec wrote: post #110

I saw it on twitter and had to go to BBC to make sure this isn't some joke or hoax. 2025 and we have National level power cuts? I know it may be rare but I think some day we really need to move or mandate every single flat / home / apartment / living places to have a 12 - 24 hours backup battery included. Something that has 10K+ Cycles, durable and non-flammable. Not only does it make sure our modern lives without su…

Mandate a battery backup. Instead of requiring the power suppliers to build and maintain reliable energy. That is just shifting someone else's mistake into being my responsibility.

“How to waste money and valuable resources” in a nutshell.

Like it or not but we are a species of social animals, you cannot live without relying on others. That's just delusional.

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Post by amval »

bslanej wrote: post #123
amval wrote: post #116

Apparently this spans more countries? Very strange. Possibly a cyberattack or sabotage? Growing up in Spain I've never experienced anything like this (not there at the moment, but friends have told me over WhatsApp).

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Ah, yes. The dubious and evil Perro Sánchez.

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Post by anonzzzies »

ksec wrote: post #110

I saw it on twitter and had to go to BBC to make sure this isn't some joke or hoax. 2025 and we have National level power cuts? I know it may be rare but I think some day we really need to move or mandate every single flat / home / apartment / living places to have a 12 - 24 hours backup battery included. Something that has 10K+ Cycles, durable and non-flammable. Not only does it make sure our modern lives without su…

This is very rare. Not actually worth to make that much fuss unless you are a hospital.

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Post by Loughla »

jvanderbot wrote: post #127
elric wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like an incredibly expensive solution to a problem that could be tackled more efficiently at a larger scale.

Didn't we used to pump steam around for heating and now homes have individual furnaces? If the cost for this were about the cost of a furnace I don't see why this wouldn't be viable. I bought a generator for just this situation.

There is a very, very appreciable difference between moving hot steam around and moving electricity around.

The thing you said doesn't really make sense to me; I'm not sure it's an apt analogy.

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