Black Out UK possible

[david44]

No not free trips to Rwanda but despite PMs assurance power interruptions may occur.

Seems incredible when we condsider UK good fortune

A rock surrounded by viable tidal waves
Strong winter winds
home to first civil nuclear power
Cornwall's thermal energy not to speak of hot air used oil
The island is littered with coal from Kent to Somerset Yorkshire to Bristol

Yet the ownership and distribution is not a service but many private firms

In addition to all the above there is Hydro
North sea Gas including direct links to Norway
North Sea and Celtic sea fields


UK warned it could face three-hour daily blackouts this winter

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Suggestions that Greggs users may be melted down as lardy bio-mass have been poo pooed

[Joe 90]

Suggestions that Greggs users may be melted down as lardy bio-mass have been poo pooed

Thank fook for that!

Let's just blame it all on Brexit.

[reinvented]

^
exactly, my dream of opening Thailnd's first greggs at asoke next to pala pizza and all the new pot shops remains intact

[VocalNeal]

^ I think you would get more customers in a seedy soi in Pattaya?

[david44]

We're not preppers as our village will never run out of food and water, fuel maybe, net likely but a few months supply of rice, local wood fuel and fish fowl and Lao Khao should see us through most emergencies. Absence of Lakorn may pf course result in ear ache so I I am buying partner a good stock of silver to make jewellery Thai "Literature" and seeds while we go shopping today for Candles.

[david44]

For those who missed the classic 2 Ronnies sketch one of my favourites

[helge]

power interruptions may occur.

Yes, we have become third world countries.

And why?

Because we have continiued to elect the same corrupt and/or incompetent politicians, who have been busy to privatize/deregulate our energy sector, which we, the taxpayers has developed and subsidised up to being worth something.

Then the Goldman Sachs types come waltzing in and with them we can start paying "world markets" prices for our own fucking silverware.

And then comes Ukraine

Very handy for the war profiteering energy sector.

Not so handy for many millions of not so well of people and the politicians go.....huh ?


Oh dear, have we been stupid


One should live in Thailand, where the solar panels work when you need your air con and where everybody knows, that politicians are shit and expect nothing good from their side

[david44]

we

?

we been stupid

is that the royal we ?

One should live in Thailand

One does

[helge]

is that the royal we ?

I'm not alone here and until I run things, I'll refrain from using the dictatorial (l'etat c'est moi) I

[docmartin]

Electrical supplies are very vulnerable to sabotage.
Take out the power transformers in the larger switchyards (outdoor substations) with RPGs or drone strikes and there goes the network. These transformers cannot be bought off the shelf usually and take a while to make.
Even spreading conductive dusts around a switchyard will cause damage that takes time to repair.

[helge]

These transformers cannot be bought off the shelf usually and take a while to make.

And where does the parts come from ?

When the day comes, when we are asked to sanction China, I hope for more brain capacity among our leaders


I will be dissapointed

[docmartin]

The parts are simple. Laminated steel cores, copper windings, paper winding insulation, bonding resins and mineral oil aren’t exotic.
Voltage regulators, tap changers and gas / fault detection and protection gear are slightly more complicated but can be manufactured domestically in many countries.
But it takes time to design and make these transformers - time in which people have no electricity.