Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 months agoPower goes out on entire island of Cuba, leaving 10 million people without electricitywww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down14
arrow-up1193arrow-down1external-linkPower goes out on entire island of Cuba, leaving 10 million people without electricitywww.nbcnews.comRapidcreek@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square9linkfedilink
minus-squaregreenskye@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 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-up4arrow-down3·8 months agoI’m amazed they don’t have redundancies in case of things like this. I guess not.
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoThat could never happen here.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 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.
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.