Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain

On 8/05/2025 2:48 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

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

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

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

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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.
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It will happen.

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Liz Tuddenham, prophet.

 Anything that can go wrong - will.

That's what the uninterruptible power supply business exists to deal with.

Anything that can't go wrong - will eventually.

But redundancy can make it very unlikely that they'll all go wrong at the same time.

Anything that doesn't go wrong eventually hasn't been tested long
enough.

Perfectly true, but since the human life-time is finite, it may not be all that relevant.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney