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Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by Aurornis »

abe94 wrote: post #2

can coming into contact with a single transformer disrupt power to the entire island?

Their grid is maxed out. Losing any single major section pushes it over the edge. They have to use rolling blackouts where different parts of the grid are turned off throughout the day to keep the overall system under the limit.

Sri Lanka has about as many people as Florida and lower per-person energy usage. Their country’s power grid is smaller than that of many US states.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by raggles »

abe94 wrote: post #2

can coming into contact with a single transformer disrupt power to the entire island?

I imagine there was some sort of cascading failure involved, as in the transformer tripped, but this then overloaded another circuit which then tripped, or there was a power swing that was unsustainable, then you get over\underfrequency tripping off load and generators... this can get quite complex quite quickly in power systems, especially smaller systems found on islands.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by ridiculous_leke »

xyst wrote: post #8
Acrobatic_Road wrote: post #3

but was the monkey alright?

Very unlikely > The animal had come into contact with the transformer at the station, disrupting supply to the entire country Bro was cooked

Another example how human civilization, in its present form, is generally incompatible with Earth's flora and fauna. Obviously, going back to stone-age is not a solution for us. But we certainly need to update/devise methods that do not harm anyone living creatures (or at least the sentient ones). Poor monkey had no idea what he got into and suffered a brutal death.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by taspeotis »

catlikesshrimp wrote: post #10

This happened on February the 9th - 10th This wikipedia article was marked for deletion, so just in case https://archive.ph/wip/7fvmI Other forums are mentioning conspiracy theories about political oponents sabotaging the current (new) government. No skin in that game

Yeah this wasn’t even interesting when I read about it a week ago

Hacker “Olds” amirite

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

ridiculous_leke wrote: post #17
xyst wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very unlikely > The animal had come into contact with the transformer at the station, disrupting supply to the entire country Bro was cooked

Another example how human civilization, in its present form, is generally incompatible with Earth's flora and fauna. Obviously, going back to stone-age is not a solution for us. But we certainly need to update/devise methods that do not harm anyone living creatures (or at least the sentient ones). Poor monkey had no idea what he got into and suffered a brutal death.

> we certainly need to update/devise methods that do not harm anyone living creatures (or at least the sentient ones)

Nature is brutal. I distinctly remember a hike where I stumbled on a mother bear (RIP) tearing apart a still-alive baby elk for her cubs. Human civilisation has done a lot of damage. But we might also be able to spare a lot of sentient suffering, bringing care to the biosphere and taking station as nature’s ethical guardians. Food for thought if you find yourself going full misanthrope.

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