vegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 26 days agoSpain and Portugal are without electricity. Huge power outagewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down11cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up195arrow-down1external-linkSpain and Portugal are without electricity. Huge power outagewww.bbc.comvegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square12linkfedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squareTrustedFeline [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-225 days agoI think large blackouts happen when this goes wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_(alternating_current) . Or that’s one of the things that makes restarting a power grid so difficult
minus-squaremerthyr1831@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agoA Portuguese energy company said that temperature fluctuations across Spain were exactly what caused parts of the network to go out of sync.
I think large blackouts happen when this goes wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_(alternating_current) . Or that’s one of the things that makes restarting a power grid so difficult
A Portuguese energy company said that temperature fluctuations across Spain were exactly what caused parts of the network to go out of sync.