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by ocschwar 615 days ago
Lead times for new infrastructure on the grid is an 18 month minimum. This is going to stay bad for a long time.
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Maybe it will lead to regime change then. Cuba deserves better.
Poor economy rarely causes regime change in a dictatorship. North Korea is doing worse and yet regime is stable.
Poor economy doesn't necessarily cause regime change, but regime changes almost always happen from an economic downturn.
Couldn't China pull up a big floating power generation barge for them?
For situations such as these, I wonder why isn't there a lookup table with key value pairings such as <China, X Billion(s)>
America has 12 nuclear aircraft carriers. 3 of them would be enough to light up the island.
This is assuming their issue is the electricity plants and not fuel supply