Can we nominate people? There's an Orange that comes to mind.
vk6flab
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Hmm .. I confess that I really appreciate and enjoy the company of the neighbours all around me .. although there is one .. let me work on that ..
Very cute .. I don't even have space for the little rodent, let alone a distant cousin ten times its size.
I'm guessing that you'd need a big backyard for either .. so I'm out.
I'm not familiar with how many telephones in Spain are landlines, but looking at Australia, where I am, the majority of connections don't have an SLA battery, made even more power dependent because we have been rolling out fibre optic cable everywhere and the copper wire in the ground has been disconnected, preventing telephone exchanges from powering much of anything anymore.
The idea that generators will keep the essentials running is incomplete if not outright incorrect. Most of these systems have never been actually tested with an actual outage, look at Heathrow airport for a recent example.
At best a generator will run for up to 12 hours, and only if you have multiple generators and the fuel to run them will you have much in the way of energy security.
Of course if you're already running on a generator then the picture is different, but even then, in the case of a country wide power outage, getting fuel for longer periods of time is going to be a challenge.
Do you mean this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance; thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.
The news reports I've read suggest that it started at 6:33 am, hours before the actual outage.
Edit: I must be remembering this wrong, I can only find references to 9:30 am, not 6:33.
Off the top of my head in no particular order:
- sewerage pumps
- fresh water pumps
- telecommunications systems
- refrigeration equipment in homes, restaurants, hotels, factories
- transport infrastructure like street lights, traffic lights, railway crossing lights
- trains, consider for example control of signalling and switching, let alone electric trains
- fuel distribution like petrol pumps
- hospitals
- broadcasting like TV and radio
- aviation
Essentially society as we know it stops, at least for a while. Generators are used, but are often of limited use, since getting fuel to them is non-trivial and many are scaled for short outages.
Without knowing what happened in Spain, I can say that events like this can and do happen around the world. It's likely that this will increase.
Given how interconnected the electricity grid is, I'm surprised that this didn't cascade across Europe.
I live in the middle of a city and while this information seems both environmentally responsible and economically prudent to both know and track, it's not something I've ever done or would know how to achieve.
I suspect that's true for a great many people on the planet.
So .. where would we look?
I'm living on the West coast of Australia in Perth. We're currently in the second half of Autumn and headed into a so-called Mediterranean Winter, but the increased unpredictable weather means that it's all over the place.
That article is very light on detail. I wanted to know if my government was represented, but the article doesn't even show a list of all the countries participating.
Isn't Bloomberg supposed to be the source of reliable global business information that's informing the business leaders of the world, or is this just another random journalism by billionaire outfit?
If you genuinely attempting to quantify this, you can create a swap file of any size right there on your drive. You could iterate and test every setting for every scenario. You could even change settings dynamically if you wanted to.
That said, I leave it to the kernel to figure out and over the past 25 or so years that's been fine.