Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldcake to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agoPower goes out on entire island of Cuba, leaving 10 million people without electricitywww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1263arrow-down17
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minus-squaregreenskye@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·9 months agoCascade failure maybe? Sudden loss causes other plants to try to pick up slack, overloading one of them, which puts even more pressure on the rest until they all fail?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down3·9 months agoI’m amazed they don’t have redundancies in case of things like this. I guess not.
minus-squaremetaStatic@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·9 months agoI’d be more amazed if they where able to build that capacity behind an American blockade
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·9 months agoIt’s an embargo, not a blockade. Plenty of other countries trade with Cuba. In fact, Canadians go to Cuban resorts on the regular.
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 months agoThat could never happen here.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·9 months agoI would have hoped things had improved in the last 20 years. Apparently they haven’t, at least in Cuba.
Cascade failure maybe? Sudden loss causes other plants to try to pick up slack, overloading one of them, which puts even more pressure on the rest until they all fail?
I’m amazed they don’t have redundancies in case of things like this. I guess not.
I’d be more amazed if they where able to build that capacity behind an American blockade
It’s an embargo, not a blockade. Plenty of other countries trade with Cuba. In fact, Canadians go to Cuban resorts on the regular.
That could never happen here.
I would have hoped things had improved in the last 20 years. Apparently they haven’t, at least in Cuba.