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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 02:30:39 +1000
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On 6/05/2025 5:13 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/05/2025 5:04 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6/05/2025 2:35 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>>> john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:

<snip>

>>>> Even politicians can be relied on to be less stupid than that.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> There is no evidence to support your claim at the moment.
>>
>> There is negative evidence - there haven't been enough deaths that
>> anyone can ascribe to political stupidity.
> 
> The conversion to mains-dependency is nowhere near completion yet and
> the change has been so rapid that there haven't been any major power
> cuts during that time.
> 
> It will happen.

Liz Tuddenham, prophet.

Back-up power isn't actually a political question. It gets written into 
specifications for particular jobs - nothing I've been directly involved 
with, but there is a lively business in providing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply

It's part of the background that politicians don't bother paying 
attention to, because if the engineers and administrators do their jobs, 
the politicians don't get to hear about it.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney