Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain

On 30/04/2025 10:00 am, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:55:33 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 4/29/2025 6:41 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:05:10 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 4/29/2025 4:39 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:51:36 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
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On 2025-04-29 21:26, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:13:29 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
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On 2025-04-29 14:24, Martin Brown wrote:
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Anyone have any idea what actually happened?

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No. Every possibility is being investigated, and the government has
promised to say it, and claim damages if there is a culprit.

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Cool. The government can collect damages from itself.

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Nope. It is private companies.

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What we do here is insanely bad forest management that builds
incredible fuel loads. So when a fire explodes, government conjectures
an ignition source and sues some private party. Unless it was
lightning; it's hard to sue God.
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When unemployed people are cold and hungry in the dark, they may
reconsider voting Green.

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The Greens will have to wait in line.
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Treasury Secretary Bessent said he is not currently concerned about the
risk of empty store shelves, stating, "We have some great retailers. I
assume they preordered."
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It's some good stuff these people are smoking. US retailers learned
_nothing_  from COVID, other than how to raise prices.

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Could be that the day of the $5 tee shirt and the $7 prescription
glasses (shipping included) are mostly over.
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China is considering selling all that cheap stuff to their own people!
Fancy that. They might have to pay them enough to afford it.
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It's too late, capital is already moving on to Vietnam, Myanmar,
Philippines, Africa, El Salvadorian prison slave labor..

 "The Dutch Disease" posits that having one valuable resource, like oil
or something, makes the elites rich and impoverishes most citizens.
China's resource is cheap labor, and exports make the elites, the CCP,
rich.

Except that having lots of natural gas for a while didn't make the Netherlands poor. I was living there when the natural gas was running out, and it wasn't in the least impoverished. They had the money to invest in masking better photolithography machines at ASML - I tried for work there and didn't get hired. You and Phil Hobbs seem to have done better.

Wouldn't it be ironic if Trump's tarriff war winds up benefiting the
working people in China. Maybe that's his plan.

Trump hasn't get the attention span to have a plan.
China is replaying Japan's me-too industrialisation,  unfortunately including the enlarged co-prosperity sphere. They may get to democracy a bit faster. Replicating other people's technological advances may let them copy the poltical advances as well. The USA is still stuck with a remarkably primitive political system, so it isn't guaranteed.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney