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2019-03-12 Caribbean-Latin America
Here’s why Venezuela’s partial blackouts are unfortunately likely to persist for a while
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#1 AOC would say it's a perfect opportunity to stop using that icky turbine generated electricity stuff...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-12 10:19||   2019-03-12 10:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Here'swhy Venezuela's partial blackouts are unfortunately likely to persist for a while.

Because anything other than socialism.
Posted by gorb 2019-03-12 11:22||   2019-03-12 11:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like an adjacent step-up transformer yard next to the Guri power plant blew up when they tried to re-start the turbines there. Nobody had shut them down before restarting the turbines ('phased startup') and they went to 100% immediately...and you can guess the rest.

Kind of like restarting your 1/2-ton truck from a dead-stop while in gear, uphill, and towing 50K lbs. Something is gonna give.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-03-12 12:18||   2019-03-12 12:18|| Front Page Top

#4 The whole thing reads like a lost chapter of Atlas Shrugged.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-12 12:29||   2019-03-12 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 The whole thing reads like a lost chapter of Atlas Shrugged.

Agreed
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-03-12 12:40||   2019-03-12 12:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Bovine topics are generally Burg winners.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-12 13:29||   2019-03-12 13:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Nobody had shut them down before restarting the turbines

So is that our fault, too?
Posted by gorb 2019-03-12 13:36||   2019-03-12 13:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Shutdown and startup procedures are a social construct of the white man, and this is a CIA infiltration plot on the dam to steal electricity and keep South America poor.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-03-12 15:36||   2019-03-12 15:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Shutdown and startup procedures are a social construct of the white man, and this is a CIA infiltration plot on the dam to steal electricity and keep South America poor.

They've really never liked electricity or well chambre bien éclairée.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-12 17:20||   2019-03-12 17:20|| Front Page Top

#10 So is that our fault, too?

Opns manuals in English.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-12 17:29||   2019-03-12 17:29|| Front Page Top

#11 The guys in the video at the 5:07 mark. Third world engineering expertise...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zltVGa5sk
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-12 17:46||   2019-03-12 17:46|| Front Page Top

#12 No power, no water pressure. No running sewers.

Next, disease.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-12 20:16||   2019-03-12 20:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Don't worry - they have Cuban doctors.

Top men. Top. Men.
Posted by Frank G 2019-03-12 21:01||   2019-03-12 21:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Corpoelec defaulted on bonds on April 10, 2018 without paying anything on the principle or interest to bond holders.
Posted by Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 2019-03-12 21:33||   2019-03-12 21:33|| Front Page Top

#15 those rayycciss capitalist pig bondholders!
Posted by Frank G 2019-03-12 21:57||   2019-03-12 21:57|| Front Page Top

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