Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain

On 6/05/2025 2:35 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

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

A few days without
power won't kill many people.

 It will in the UK if all the 'phones need mains power (either at the
subscribers' premises or at the masts).  Nobody will be able to call out
the emergency services.  How many deaths per day will that be if  nobody
can contact the police, fire brigade or ambulance service?

Even politicians can be relied on to be less stupid than that. Admittedly they were stupid enough to moth-ball the natural gas storage set-up which let you store enough natural gas to keep the fast-start gas-turbine generators running for a couple of days, just before Russian gas got cut off.
In the renewable future that storage will probably be repurposed to store electrolytic hydrogen - you only get back about 25% of the energy you used to make the hydrogen, but emergency back-up don't have to be all the cheap - they don't get used all that often.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney