General blackout in the Iberian peninsula
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Today's episode of "Malfunction or Moscow?"
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The entire peninsula has no power at all? How on earth does that happen?
I hope everyone's safe.
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Today's episode of "Malfunction or Moscow?"
And introducing guest star ".... Washington!?"
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And introducing guest star ".... Washington!?"
I wouldn't rule out Beijing either. They always got a folding chair somewhere.
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I wouldn't rule out Beijing either. They always got a folding chair somewhere.
i thought spain and china are on good terms, or at least compared to most other eu countries
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i thought spain and china are on good terms, or at least compared to most other eu countries
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I don't know about their relationship, I just know that chinese tech took root too deep in too much critical infrastructure in Europe.
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Today's episode of "Malfunction or Moscow?"
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Auto-translated:
15:31 : Ribera says that nothing points to the blackout in Spain and Portugal being intentional
The vice president of the European Commission (EC) for the Clean Transition, Teresa Ribera, says that the blackout recorded in Spain and Portugal is one of the "most important" in recent years and points out that nothing allows us to think that it has been intentional. "There is nothing that allows us to make us think that there is anything intentional," Ribera also said in statements to the press. (EFE)
Speculation is fun, but ...
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The entire peninsula has no power at all? How on earth does that happen?
I hope everyone's safe.
Europe has a highly interconnected grid. Usually that works in everyone's favor by providing much better stability than smaller grids. It appears there are ways to take down the entire grid too though.
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The entire peninsula has no power at all? How on earth does that happen?
I hope everyone's safe.
Electricity network requires that production and consumption are always equal. If there is too little production, the frequency (Hz) goes down and if too little consumption, the frequency goes up. If frequency goes too far every electric device pretty much breaks.
This is why there is automation in the network that tries to balance the network (reserve production and consumption). BUT if shit hits the fan, and frequency goes too bad, it automatically takes load off or production off the network. This often causes domino effect, you take load off, which causes over production, and again you take production off and loop is ready. In minutes the whole network falls like domino blocks, one by one.
There was lots of luck (and probably skill and preparation) that they were able to stop it. Main land Europe from Portugal to Turkey is one big network.
Cold starting whole Europe would have taken week. You need to start small islands, and connect them together slowly. Balancing load and production.
Source: I work in electricity production and distribution.
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