Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain

On 6/05/2025 5:13 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
 

On 6/05/2025 5:04 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
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On 6/05/2025 2:35 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:

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Even politicians can be relied on to be less stupid than that.

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There is no evidence to support your claim at the moment.

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There is negative evidence - there haven't been enough deaths that
anyone can ascribe to political stupidity.

 The conversion to mains-dependency is nowhere near completion yet and
the change has been so rapid that there haven't been any major power
cuts during that time.
 It will happen.

Liz Tuddenham, prophet.
Back-up power isn't actually a political question. It gets written into specifications for particular jobs - nothing I've been directly involved with, but there is a lively business in providing it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply
It's part of the background that politicians don't bother paying attention to, because if the engineers and administrators do their jobs, the politicians don't get to hear about it.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney