Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain

On 4/05/2025 2:49 pm, Don Y wrote:

Their "poor planning/engineering" hasn't COST them sufficiently for them
to actually DO something about the problem!  Perhaps now, with an entire
nation *pissed*, they will decide they can't just wave their hands
at the problem...

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Too early. It will be months before we know what actually happened, and this before anybody can think what can be done about it.

 But, they will now not be able to hand-wave the issue aside.
People will be EXPECTING "something" to be done with the
CLAIMED point of being a "solution".  Even if it proves not to be!

Donald Trump has a lot of "solutions" to the "problems" he claims American is facing. Hitler's solutions to similar "problems" was to invade Russia. Trump's trade war with China is even more foolish.
Encouraging politicians to "act" often has them picking "solutions" that look dramatic but don't actually work.
Buying lots of grid scale batteries probably would solve the problem, but might not provide enough photo-opportunities to be an attractive solution. Pumped hydroelectric storage takes a lot longer to install but it does offer more dramatic images.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney