No End in Sight to Venezuela’s Blackout, Experts Warn

NY Slimes ^ | March 11, 2019 | Anatoly Kurmanaev and Isayen Herrera

[catnipman]

On Thursday, the San Geronimo B substation in the center of the country, which supplies electricity to four out of five Venezuelans from the massive Guri hydropower plant, went down.

No date has been set to restart the plant and most workers were told to stay home on Monday

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Other experts, including Mr. Aguilar, said the magnitude of the blackout indicated the problem was caused by a major failure inside Guri’s turbines. A Corpoelec supervisor involved in dispatching Guri’s power said he was told by the plant’s managers on Thursday that the plant’s equipment was damaged.

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Mr. Aguilar ... said the government has tried to restart Guri four times since the start of the blackout on Thursday.

[AFPhys]

On the plus side their carbon emissions are approaching zero.

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Great point! Tell AOC and the other fool Democrats!

[jdege]

You just turn it off then turn it on again.

What could go wrong?

[Paul R.]

That’s uh, impressive!

I’m still trying to imagine watching the turbine rotor, still spinning, trying to become a helicopter!

[Spktyr]

One possibly telling item - nobody in the press, even the government-controlled press has been allowed in to the dam’s turbine halls since the incident. One would expect a socialist government in such straits to want to ‘prove’ that they are working on the issue, even if the turbines would only be props.

Makes you wonder what those turbine halls look like - and if the place has wreckage or redeposited insulation everywhere.

[Spktyr]

You wouldn’t want to be watching it from anywhere inside or near the dam, though, because that proves to be quite lethal.

[bert]

You are right

I just checked on Bing and and there are no current reports

I did hear today that China has volunteered to help out

[Concentrate]

bttt.