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I'm in Valencia and it is indeed happening here. A street parade under my windows continues nonetheless.
by suslik 1y ago
I'm in Valencia and it is indeed happening here. A street parade under my windows continues nonetheless.
- rambambram 1y agoHow are you posting this?
- suslik 1y agoMobile internet still works.
- samlinnfer 1y agoCell towers have backup generators?
- Tuna-Fish 1y agoMost of them have batteries. How long they last depends, in my country they can typically manage 4 hours.
- sofixa 1y agoThey still need other infrastructure to get anywhere though (routers and other networking infrastructure).
- throw0101b 1y agoCell towers have batteries and/or generators, with fibre connections to data centres, which also generally have batteries and/or generators.
- xen2xen1 1y agoAlways picture someone with a big can of diesel filling up a generator. Experience says it could be a genny running on natural gas. Had that at work before.
- raxxorraxor 1y agoI think cell phone towers use surprisingly little energy, just a few kW. So even longer term operation should be possible withs bobs backyard generator running on vodka. But I would guess the whole network equipment would draw quite a bit, especially a modern infrastructure.
- rdtsc 1y agoBatteries at least.
- Semaphor 1y agoWe had a (much smaller) regional (Lübeck and Ostholstein) power outage here in Northern Germany in I think 2018 or 19. No mobile internet until everything was restored ~6 hours later, and most of the time no other cell service either.
- cowfarts 1y ago"Cell towers have backup generators?" All essential infrastructure has to. Heck, if you have a landline you can probably siphon off some power from the DC component.
- codetrotter 1y agoIt works, but only some of the time now. It’s been very unstable for me since the outage started. I’m in Spain.
- bayindirh 1y agoTelcos have tons of backup power. They’re required to have it.
- stavros 1y ago> A street parade under my windows continues nonetheless. I mean, what else are you gonna do without power?
- ta1243 1y agoUsually? Sex. At least that's what everyone believes https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/from-here-to-maternity/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/from-here-to-maternity/
- sybercecurity 1y agoWell, sex and looting, and maybe inventing new music genres. The legend is that hip hop and sampling started after the blackout in NYC. Some electronic and music stores were looted and the recording equipment eventually ended up in the hands of musicians looking to make a new sound: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/new-york-city-1977-blackout-history-of-hip-hop-1234610435/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/new-york-c...