So far, we know power outages either from the 1980s, when, compared to today, few devices and systems required electricity or from breaks lasting several minutes or several hours, which are rare anyway.
The entire civilization depends on electricity and few people realize how much. The effects of the interruption of a chemical plant producing nitrogen fertilizers, when no alternative means of cooling the equipment can be found, may resemble the explosion of a small atomic bomb. Of course, it's not about the power of the explosion, but about air contamination with a cloud of poisonous ammonia and other gases. On the other hand, if the so-called Carrington event, i.e. a strong explosion on the Sun, happened today, it would result in burning out all electrical devices on Earth, shifting civilization back to the Middle Ages and the death of an unimaginably large number of people.
Szczecin experienced this for several days in 2010, when the main transmission cable from the Dolna Odra power plant was damaged. Lack of light, broken contents of refrigerators, weakening mobile phone coverage, chaos in the streets, increasing nervousness of people - this was a foretaste of what may happen this winter. In the city of Police, the entire staff of the SPPK Police bus depot was put on standby in the event of a disaster in the nearby chemical plant and the need to evacuate people. In this enterprise, they bent on their heads to ensure the uninterrupted operation of power generators and prevent a tragedy.
➡️I invite you now to read the article below about what other effects a blackout can bring.
➡️ When the lights go out, when the electricity is turned off:
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“As I have been dealing with electricity for over three decades, I have also touched my life with the times when "failures" of electricity were not something strange, but even quite normal and candles were always ready in the kitchen. In addition, I lived for several years in a country where power outages are still normal, so I know a little about what to expect in such situations and I will try to shed some light on this topic. 😉
Not that I'm scaring, of course, because that's what the media and other flashing boxes are known for, which were already scaring with flying balls with teeth and spikes, or other clouds, something from the radio, or the radio and it was supposed to be active. Just treat this post more as informative.
Because if you think about it for a moment: what if ... the next fejkiem will be a shortage of electricity and people will turn off the "prunt"?
➡️ So what awaits us when the light goes out?
When the electricity goes out for several hundred minutes, it can be said that not much will happen. Most devices that require continuity of power have UPSs. Today, elevators in new buildings also have devices that, based on a battery pack, allow you to safely stop on the nearest floor and open the door in an emergency so that no one gets stuck between floors. I once installed something like this in one hotel.
Apart from the lack of light, televisions, refrigerators, etc., not much will change. At home, most will light candles after finding them with a phone flashlight, or another flashlight in the evening, and wait for the "light" to return. There will also be no emergency lighting in companies, institutions, streets, hospitals, etc.
But the most important thing is to stay calm anyway ... When the electricity goes out for a longer time, a few hours or days, then more problems will start to pour out. Most of the UPS will discharge, the generators will also turn off if there is no more fuel.
➡️ What else can we expect?
In most cases, there will be no water in the taps (houses, companies, institutions, public buildings - hospitals), there will be no sewage system, no furnaces (heating) that need access to the power grid to operate (if the furnace works, the pump is still the issue) ).
Also, the traffic lights will not work, and this means a threat on the roads in the current brainless times. Well, there are no lights, how to get here?
After a few hours, the mobile network will stop working, including the Internet.
Radio stations are unlikely to have aggregates, so they will also stop working. Maybe few have, or at least larger UPS, but rather to safely turn off everything. But maybe some have aggregated. I do not know. And of course, the population would have to have battery-powered radios to pick up the signal, if any.
The same goes for TV stations.
➡️ Agriculture, industry.
The animals will be at risk. Automatic feeding, watering, milking, etc. equipment will stop. If this continues for several days, we have a terrible disaster for livestock.
Egg incubators will not function, and chicks will never hatch. And this is another huge loss and, consequently, a problem.
Without electricity, no refrigerators or freezers will work, millions of such devices will stop working and cooling, and after a few days, thousands of tons of meat, cheese, milk, and other products will spoil.
➡️ Trade
You will not be able to make purchases both in stationary and online stores. Maybe only in small, local ones, but for how long? And of course, cash only. Anyone with plastic in their wallet will have a problem. Unless they eat it.
Gas stations will become useless, without electricity, fuel will not be able to be pumped. After a short time, the fuel will start to run out for those who are on the move.
➡️ It's safe to say that all trade, industry, and everything based on the operation of some system will stop. For example, couriers will not deliver anything, all services, and workshops will also have a forced break. Unless they have generators. But this does not ensure long-term work.
Factories and production lines will stop, and there will be many cases of disasters or fires because the safety devices will not function.
Of course, banks and ATMs will also not work, there will be no transfers or withdrawals. All virtual money will cease to have any meaning during a power outage.
And how long will they function and how will all services be? That is, those who are intended to serve the nation, or at least they should, such as the police, army, guards, etc. What about prisons? How long can such places function without electricity?
➡️ There is still a question of the time of day, year, etc.
If there is no electricity in the spring or autumn, the losses will be smaller. But in the hot summer, no air conditioning will work, although it's not a tragedy yet, because people used to live without it, but everything in cold stores and fridges will break down much faster. In winter, nowadays, when all stoves have electronic controllers, they will become completely useless. Only those stoves, most of which have just been recently disposed of due to global warming, would heat properly. But finally, it's worth mentioning the possible problems that may occur when electricity is suddenly restored.
Many of us know the problem with starting the refrigerator from the inverter, right? Well, good example. The refrigerator at the start consumes for a fraction of second many times more current to start. Now imagine that thousands of refrigerators will be launched at once, literally with one switch. And apart from refrigerators, all the lights left on, hungry, discharged devices, etc. Millions of devices. And how many heaters if it's winter? And how many of you would be out and about in the dark and leave something on in the garage, basement, etc.? What if it causes a fire?"
➡️ Author: Toscanner
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