Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Blackout Chatter

 In WELT today, there's a article written by Kristian Frigelj, on the topic of potential blackouts in Germany coming up.  I strongly recommend a read of the article, if you get a copy of the newspaper (Wed).

Basically, the suggestion is there to start preparing yourself not just for a 8-hour blackout, or a 24-hour blackout....but potentially up to 72 hours.

My belief in this?  If you had some arctic situation, with temperatures lower than 0 C, and millions of people in some region trying to augment their natural gas heat with electrical heat.....then yeah, its possible.

Normally, no.....it's not a realistic scenario.

Politically turning into a 'scandal' situation?  No one will say much over a 8-hour or 12-hour outage.  Once you go to a 24-hour situation, then you have Germans asking stupid questions. 

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