This is speculation, but I’m reading some power is already off.
Bang, welcome to the 19th Century.
Man this is looking crazy.
Redundant communictions cable both cut.
A communications company said there was a “break” in a vital undersea cable.
It was the second such break in the space of a week, with no immediate explanation.phone-and-internet-connection-after-an-undersea-cable-was-cut
The outage came after an another undersea cable to Shetland, connecting it to the still-more-remote Faroe Island, was also damaged, the BBC reported.
More significant links — like those between the US and mainland Europe — have more than a dozen separate cables, meaning a single break is less likely to result in an outage.
“Engineers are working to divert services via other routes as soon as possible and we’ll provide further updates. Our external subsea provider is also looking to restore their link quickly,” BT said.
Neither police nor BT gave a reason for the cable breaking.
Cough…russia…cough…
I made two business trips to the EU this summer, including England.
The hotels in every country had pulled the mini fridges and kept the AC off without explanation.
I knew the reason and it was because they don’t have the energy for such luxuries. You could not get them to admit it regardless of the line of questioning. It was always some mysterious “maintenance issue.”
Either it is purposly being done like the commo link, or they’re aging out of their infrastructure.
They should have went heavy in to Nuclear.
Hahaha, stupid europeans.
Good thing we aren’t on the same stupid path with energy.
SM is reporting all sorts of protests across the pond…France, Germany, Italy & others are all having problems with insane inflation / gas prices / energy bills going through the roof.
Francisco D’Anconia’s crew is hard at work!
I’d be more willing to bet that in the last 50 years they’ve been spending money on socialist programs rather than maintaining things like their infrastructure and power grid.
I think most countries have done far too much of that shit- ESPECIALLY this one. Gonna bite everyone in ass, very soon I think.
Around here in the US we have a system that supplies power from nearby electrical power plants. The electrical generation plants are integrated together on the grid so that if a plant has a problem and has to drop load we can pick up load from another plant on the system. Even if a power plant has a total shutdown for some reason or another, we can fire up reserve units at other plants if need be to keep up with load demand.
We have never been so stupid as to depend on fuel from another country for our power.
I guess Europe does things differently.
Stop with that common sense observation.
Looking forward to watching the Eurocucks freeze in the dark this winter.
They did this to themselves.
Except when it comes to oil imports from Russia.
Oh, we know.
Didn’t Biden say something a while back about a ‘cold winter’?
Guess he was off by a year…
Asymmetrical warfare
…by dumb luck, I live in a climate that won’t kill you during the winter.
In the summer, I suppose when it’s 120F in the shade, if you’re in poor shape, it might kill you; but I’m not, and I work in it for 9-12 hours a day and have slept in 105F+ 100% humidity some nights…It was…uncomfortable.
My AC(what most call the light bill) during the winter is $40. During the summer it’s $250, to $300. I assume that will double this next year with the rate increases.
I moved to the midwest because it is the most comfortable. You can always grab blankets and I have a really nice fireplace.