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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:19:57 +1000
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On 30/04/2025 6:39 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:51:36 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-04-29 21:26, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:13:29 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
>>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2025-04-29 14:24, Martin Brown wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have any idea what actually happened?
>>>>
>>>> No. Every possibility is being investigated, and the government has
>>>> promised to say it, and claim damages if there is a culprit.
>>>
>>> Cool. The government can collect damages from itself.
>>
>> Nope. It is private companies.
> 
> What we do here is insanely bad forest management that builds
> incredible fuel loads. 

Fuel-reduction burns don't stop forest fires. We do lots a of them in 
Australia. They can make forest fires less disastrous than they might 
have been, but in a dry season pretty much everything can burn

> So when a fire explodes, government conjectures
> an ignition source and sues some private party. Unless it was
> lightning; it's hard to sue God.

And mostly it is lightning.

> When unemployed people are cold and hungry in the dark, they may
> reconsider voting Green.

Stopping digging up fossil carbon isn't going to condemn anybody to cold 
or hunger, even the climate change denial propaganda machine likes to 
complain that it will.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney