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   From: earl@novell.com   
      
   On 25 Feb 2025, c186282  posted some   
   news:jJScnUlavYcQCCP6nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   > State of emergency declared in Chile after nationwide power cut leaves   
   > 19 MILLION in darkness: Passengers freed from rollercoasters and subway   
   > trains as locals say 'nothing' in the country is working   
   >   
   > Chile has declared a state of emergency after a nationwide   
   > power cut left 19million people in darkness.   
   >   
   > A curfew has been enforced across much of the country, including   
   > in the capital Santiago, until 6am on Wednesday morning.   
   >   
   > The blackout, which left 98 per cent of the population   
   > without electricity, caused traffic chaos as streetlights   
   > went dark, while subway trains stopped working.   
   >   
   > Terrified passengers also had to be rescued from a rollercoaster   
   > stuck in midair.   
   >   
   > The Santiago metro, which transports millions of passengers,   
   > was closed and passengers were evacuated from stalled trains.   
   >   
   > 'There's nothing. There's no cash. No money. Nothing,' said   
   > Jose Luis Orlandini, who was eating in downtown Santiago when   
   > the outage hit.   
   >   
   > The agency in charge of Chile's power grid said the power cut   
   > was caused by a disconnection in the transmission system in   
   > the Norte Chico region.   
      
   Is Hunter Biden down there?   
      
   > The Interior Ministry said it was deploying the armed forces   
   > across the country to help maintain order.   
   >   
   > . . .   
   >   
   >    UNfortunately - power grid "logic" CAN result in such   
   >    total blackouts. One section overloads, cuts out, and   
   >    that drags down everything else. Pop! Pop! Pop! they   
   >    all fall down. The USA has suffered from similar mass   
   >    blackouts, some not so long ago. It'll happen again,   
   >    big solar flare or just some squirrel shorting out   
   >    a transformer - which leads to, which leads to ...   
   >   
   >    Power grids are HARD to manage. SOUNDS easy, but ain't.   
   >   
   >    Human-regulated systems are too slow. Automated systems   
   >    suffer from "emergent behavior" - usually unpredictable -   
   >    from trying to balance all the input data and reach   
   >    some "logical" solution. A kind of "AI insanity".   
   >   
   >    CUBA has had several long nation-wide blackouts of   
   >    late. This is, mostly, from old Soviet-era equipment   
   >    and nobody NOW who knows how to run it properly.   
   >   
   >    EVERYTHING now is electric. It's THE key technology.   
   >    It's why Russia puts so much effort into blasting   
   >    Ukrainian power grids - and will do the same in any   
   >    other country it plans to whack. 100 years ago you   
   >    would have to blast "agriculture" - kinda big - but   
   >    NOW, and with EZ internet interfaces Vlad & Xi's   
   >    boyz all know well ............   
      
   The East Coast is in deep shit with their antiquidated distribution grid.   
      
   I'd take out data centers myself.   
      
   Do you have any idea what you could do to Amazon, Costco, Apple and Kroger   
   by hitting just two data centers?   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)