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by ErroneousBosh 72 days ago
Have a wee guess at what the big boxy things beside the distribution centres with "AGGREKO" written on the side in big orange letters, a big exhaust pipe sticking out the top, and seriously massive electrical connections at one end are.
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defrost 72 days ago
There's a lot of bizarre sniping comments here coming from users who seemingly have _zero_ experience living outside of high uptime largish municipal grids.
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ErroneousBosh 71 days ago
It's incredible, isn't it? I get similar when I point out that while it's nice that they believe in the whole gas stoves vs. induction hobs thing (a gas stove fills the air with toxic pollution and an induction hob doesn't, IF you seal the room with the gas stove up absolutely airtight and burn fried food on it compared to using the induction stove to slightly warm a pan of water in a well-ventilated room), a gas stove solves a problem I have in a way that an induction stove doesn't.

"Oh but we never get power cuts here!"

Yeah. Try living in a part of the world where 140mph winds for four weeks just just Normal January Weather.

"But if I got power cuts for more than a few hours I'd complain to the provider!"

Yeah. That sure is going to help rebuild 30 miles of blown-over 275kV power line that runs through some of the most inaccessible country even if it's not storm-force winds that prevent access by boat and fallen trees that prevent access by land. Complain all you like, but doing beats talking.

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SoftTalker 72 days ago
The context of this subthread is the intentional destruction of "large, bespoke transmission transformers" so the on-site backup generators will hold you over for a few days, maybe a week or so until they run out of fuel. Meanwhile the lead time on replacing those transformers is years, and that doesn't account for the collapse "into the Stone Age" that is unfolding in the meantime.
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ErroneousBosh 71 days ago
You know you can just get someone to rock up with a tanker lorry and put more fuel in, right?

It's expensive these days but it's something I do across a few hundred sites about once or twice a year.

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