Re: power shortages

On a sunny day (Fri, 8 Mar 2024 15:24:46 +0000) it happened
liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote in
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Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
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On a sunny day (Fri, 8 Mar 2024 12:23:16 +0000) it happened
liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote in
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Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
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On a sunny day (Thu, 07 Mar 2024 07:13:56 -0800) it happened John Larkin
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/amid-explosive-demand-america-i
s-running-out-of-power/ar-BB1jtM69
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Increasing demand and declining reliable supply could put people in
the dark.

 Yesterday I was reading Netherlands gov has decided to build 4 new nuclear
power plants. They still have to find locations for 3, what if next
doors?? ??

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Can they find enough high ground to keep them clear of flooding if
things go badly wrong?

 Good question
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/03/mps-back-call-to-build-four-new-nuclear-p
ower-plants-in-nl/ there is risk of flooding all over this country, dikes
with pumps protect it. OTOH things have been working with ups and downs
since 1960 or so..

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Unfortunately the possibility of some malevolent power flooding the
country (or at least using the threat of that as a way of holding Europe
to ransom) is no longer the negligible risk we once thought it was.

Indeed, and flooding was used in WW2 against German invasion at some point.
I do think nuking Leeuwarden mil airport (12 km or so from where I live) where F35 is stationed now
and maybe stores some nukes, could be a target for say Russia (or America ;-) ).
 https://panteltje.nl/pub/first_F35_lands_at_Leeuwarden_airport_IXIMG_0212.JPG
I used to bike there and watch the planes.... F16s at that time, takeoff and land,
many people there, air-shows too sometimes... 2 F16 crashed over the years close to here.
some people with radios there follow air traffic and tower conversation.
The water level in the canals and fields in and around Amsterdam is controlled by a central computer,
did some design for something there years ago.
I am sure it can be hacked or if power goes....