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> There are no blackouts in Europe. There's no energy shortage. ... yet (and that's only for large-area outages. In 2019, large parts of Berlin were without po
by DocTomoe 5y ago
> There are no blackouts in Europe. There's no energy shortage.
... yet (and that's only for large-area outages. In 2019, large parts of Berlin were without power for over 30 hours [1]). Wherever I look, civil protection agencies are scurrying to set up contingency plans for a multinational, month-long blackout. In Switzerland, the public broadcaster has started communicating that risk to their population three years ago, clearly stating that this will lead to a massive loss of lives. We are running into a catastrophe, and we're too ideologically blinded to accept it.
Better stock up on those conserves and gas cartouches for cooking.
[1] https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-blackout-raises-questions-over-germanys-power-grid/a-47730394 https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-blackout-raises-questions-over-...
- _ph_ 5y agoYes, if you run it over with an excavator, even a German power line will break :p That is what happened in the link you posted. So it has nothing to do with the energy production capacity in Germany. And there is little to fear in this respect. There is still a healthy amount of reserve power available.
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- jillesvangurp 5y agoI actually live in Berlin. I don't remember ever being without power for more than minutes in the 13 years I've lived here and all of those were basically things like blown fuses and had absolutely nothing to do with capacity shortages. This power outage was in a specific area (Köpenick) in Berlin that only affected a very small portion of the Berlin population (30000 people on close to 4M people in Berlin). The root cause was some infrastructure work resulting in a power cable being cut. That stuff can happen anywhere and it had nothing to do with a capacity problem. There was plenty of power but they were cut off from it.