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That's an enormous area. I guess Texas is bigger and its grid got fucked the other year but Spain and Portugal aren't run by people trying to prove the government can't do shit.
Right now Portugal is. I mean, the center right here aren't like texas republicans but they are cutting public services.
Not this one though so there might be some backlash
The French house of Bourbon is taking their revenge upon the Spanish Habsbergs once more
Uhhh...
The Spanish royal family constitutes the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon (Spanish: Casa de Borbón), also known as the House of Bourbon-Anjou (Spanish: Casa de Borbón-Anjou).
They're hiding their secret true blood loyalties to the true rulers of europe, of course.
Not that it fools the true house of France.
Huh. That was on my bingo card for america, but not the Iberian peninsula
hmmm
"Such a widespread grid failure is extremely unusual and could be caused by a number of things: there could be a physical fault in the grid which brings down power, a coordinated cyber attack could be behind it, or a dramatic imbalance between demand and supply has tipped the grid system over the edge," Taco Engelaar, managing director at energy infrastructure experts Neara told Euronews.
"If it's a system fault, then the interconnectivity between different regional and national grids could be leading to the large footprint of outages we're seeing today," he added.
"The same goes for a cyber attack - lots of these systems are connected and share assets - taking down one could take down many."
How does something like this happen?
I think large blackouts happen when this goes wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_(alternating_current) . Or that's one of the things that makes restarting a power grid so difficult
A Portuguese energy company said that temperature fluctuations across Spain were exactly what caused parts of the network to go out of sync.
The consequences of socialism smdh
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