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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 04:47:09 +1000
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On 6/05/2025 2:35 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
>> A few days without
>> power won't kill many people.
> 
> It will in the UK if all the 'phones need mains power (either at the
> subscribers' premises or at the masts).  Nobody will be able to call out
> the emergency services.  How many deaths per day will that be if  nobody
> can contact the police, fire brigade or ambulance service?

Even politicians can be relied on to be less stupid than that. 
Admittedly they were stupid enough to moth-ball the natural gas storage 
set-up which let you store enough natural gas to keep the fast-start 
gas-turbine generators running for a couple of days, just before Russian 
gas got cut off.

In the renewable future that storage will probably be repurposed to 
store electrolytic hydrogen - you only get back about 25% of the energy 
you used to make the hydrogen, but emergency back-up don't have to be 
all the cheap - they don't get used all that often.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney