Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain

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

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

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

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.

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

 
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.

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