Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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- That looked like a diorama until I opened the image.CyBrainX
- In Madrid we’ve had the most amount of snow for 50 years!Chimp
- Have you had any electricity outages, Chimp? I was reading earlier that Spain's reliance on Green energy was causing them problems at the momentNairn
- Just another reason for Spain not to work.utopian
- This is Madrid - it's the busy bit of Spain.
(not including the basque country, which is the busiest bit of Spain I've ever known)Nairn - That is mental.
Gorgeous, but mental.Continuity - so jealous about this, barely any snow around here this Winter boooografician
- Russia?pablo28
- @Nairn, re: power outages — I have my doubts. The lines are underground, and I really doubt there was anything like a hard freeze to cause damage there.Continuity
- power outages, what a no sensei_was
- @cont - nothing to do with lines coming down, more to do with the spread of energy generation in Spain, with much reliance on wind and solar.Nairn
- Nairn: We use wind and solar in Canada, how would one snowfall in Spain kill that source exactly?zarkonite
- It's trickier to generate load from wind and solar when there's little wind and the solar panels are covered in snow and your energy requirements go up.Nairn
- I suspect that in Canada you allow for large snowfalls more than Spain might, typically. It's ok, they've just spun up nukes, but it has meddled with things.Nairn
- I was simply asking if Chimp *had* experienced anything. I used to live in Spain and the electricity would go off anyway, on occasion.Nairn
- I lived about 25km from the first wind turbines I'd ever seen, back in the late 80s. Then there were perhaps 6. Now there are literally hundreds.Nairn
- Spain went all-in on green electricity, and i couldn't be happier that they did. Just curious to see how it's being challenged with current weather.Nairn
- Solar, I can imagine that was a combat perdu d'avance (as we say in French) with that storm. But if it was a blizzard-like thing with wind, then I guess powerContinuity
- ... wouldn't have cut, thanks to turbine going at full whack.Continuity
- There were no power outages in Spain, and no the country has not went all green, in winter we burn fossils like crazy because no wind or solarernexbcn
- at the time of writing, we are doing 22% nuclear, 16% hydraulic, 25% wind, 11% burning natural gas, 11% burning garbageernexbcn
- you can check those at this link (the pie chart) https://demanda.ree.…ernexbcn
- 46% green, rest non greenernexbcn
- Ah ok, so it's basically that Spain had a shitty grid to begin with and couldn't keep up even when they were using coal and other fossil fuels.zarkonite