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Re: Heads up – effectively offline for now

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> Majority of power lines in many countries are above ground in the air > I am amazed at the crews that are rapidly dispatched for broken trees and downed wires and fix it pretty quickly. While power lines above the air are more susceptible to disturbances, they are also FAR easier to deal with.

But when they’re buried they require access FAR less frequently. In cities with buried power lines, power loss pretty much only occurs when the entire grid is undersupplied or goes down entirely like in the 2003 blackout. And those situations don’t require access to the buried lines. My city has areas with both buried and above-ground lines, and the above-ground areas see a week or two without power every year or so.…

Palo Alto is like this. Northern, wealthier, part of the city got all the power lines put underground and then the money for the program "ran out" before they could get around to doing it for the southern, slightly less affluent, areas. Never mind that the whole city paid in to the program. Oh well that just how it goes.

So now, in 2024,the power still flickers every time the wind blows and goes down at least an hour a year.

And yet, despite all the money pumped into the northern part of the grid, there is still only one connection to the national grid and it's right under the flight path of the airport where a plane already crashed into it once. Whole city, north and south, had no power for 12-ish hours.

Re: Heads up – effectively offline for now

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Torvalds can't afford a battery? An M process can probably last for several days with an external battery.

You think he does Linux builds on a Mac?

I naturally think he should use what allows him to develop -- in the winter.

Re: Heads up – effectively offline for now

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Here in South Africa we have had rolling blackouts every day for the last 18 years. Of course it has been rebranded as "loadshedding" by the government. The power is off for 2-9 hours every day, even in densely populated areas. Everyone who can afford it, has their own battery and inverter setup to keep lights, Internet, freezers and security systems running. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis

Would you consider this "first world" if you don't even get electricity for a full day?

No.
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