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No End in Sight to Venezuela’s Blackout, Experts Warn
NY Slimes ^ | March 11, 2019 | Anatoly Kurmanaev and Isayen Herrera

Posted on 03/11/2019 1:45:09 PM PDT by catnipman

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To: PGR88
BINGO! The CULTURE is the one thing all Central and South American hellholes have in common.The Latino/Hispanic culture. They take it with them(while fleeing the results of it) and their mentality creates new crapholes.
Maybe we should collect mirrors to send down. Label them: The problem.
41 posted on 03/11/2019 2:47:49 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: catnipman
This "End in sight" is dedicated to all of Venezuela's socialist masters...


42 posted on 03/11/2019 2:48:17 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: catnipman

Put your faith in socialism. It will save you.


43 posted on 03/11/2019 2:50:01 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: marktwain
Actually more like the last 20 to 25 years. When you think about it a country as rich and plentiful as Venezuela went down pretty fast and losing the electricity was the final nail.

If the damage to any of the turbines is extensive then I don't see them getting that back up and running without a great deal of help from the U.S. or someone with the civil engineering know how to fix it and that would take months or longer.

44 posted on 03/11/2019 2:50:24 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: joma89

It won’t take 50 years, more like 20 to 25 or maybe even less. Although once no food or fuel go to the Blue strongholds that will be that.


45 posted on 03/11/2019 2:52:51 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: catnipman

The guri dam has lots of turbines......Francis Turbines. 10 × 730 MW
4 × 180 MW
3 × 400 MW
3 × 225 MW
1 × 340 MW

The power station had a combined installed capacity of 1750 megawatts (MW).[3] By 1978, the capacity had been upgraded to 2065 MW, generated by ten turbines.

Because the electricity demand grew so fast, 1976 saw the beginning of a second building stage: a 1300 m long gravity dam was built, another spillway channel and a second powerhouse containing 10 turbines of 630 MW each.
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Since there are numerous turbines in at least two power houses, we must deduce that the problem is not a single turbines. The wiki article notes that the entire operation is controlled by a computer system designed by Hitachi. The problem lies beyond the turbines and is likely the gris/generator controlling Hitachi system.

The Wiki article is current

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guri_Dam


46 posted on 03/11/2019 2:53:33 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: bert
I would make a guess that the reason the lights are out is that basic maintenance has been neglected over a long period of time and that will lead to major problems and this is it.

It could be years before those plants are in operation again regardless of what happens.

47 posted on 03/11/2019 2:57:07 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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"Energy experts, Venezuelan power sector contractors and current and former Corpoelec employees have dismissed accusations of sabotage, saying the blackout was the result of years of underinvestment, corruption and brain drain."

Atlas Shrugged, indeed.
(Go look in Galt's Gulch)

48 posted on 03/11/2019 2:59:06 PM PDT by blam
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To: BusterDog

They didn’t need our help to trash their infrastructure, it’s a feature of “socialism”, not a bug.


49 posted on 03/11/2019 3:12:49 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: bert

-— the capacity had been upgraded to 2065 MW

2.1 Gigawatts??? Great Scott!

(I know, not quite right, but hey)


50 posted on 03/11/2019 3:12:53 PM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: Pontiac

You may want to check your meds. This article is about *Venezuela.* Argentina has its own problems, but the lights are still on there.


51 posted on 03/11/2019 3:14:07 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: fwdude

In Michigan in general. Major power outages happen 2-3 times a year. Generators are quite popular here.

CC


52 posted on 03/11/2019 3:19:15 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Gideon7

I heard the turbines were damaged when the outgoing power impulse fed back upon itself after the transmission lines failed.

CC


53 posted on 03/11/2019 3:21:57 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: catnipman

bookmark


54 posted on 03/11/2019 3:24:29 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Celtic Conservative

Removing the load from a generator can cause a voltage spike that exceeds the dialectric $trength of the insulation .The resulting arc then damages the insulation allowing more current which causes more damage .....


55 posted on 03/11/2019 3:28:53 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: catnipman

They just passed the Green New Deal!

/s


56 posted on 03/11/2019 3:29:59 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: M Kehoe

The solution to Venezuela’s problem is simple...

It will occur at the point in time when the population decides that their liberty is more valuable to them than their own lives. Right now, they are waiting for someone to come and fix it for them. That someone is the United States.

We (the USA) should stay out of it, and let the Venezuelans throw out the Cuban taskmasters who are controlling the Armed Forces. Else, let South America deal with it if they want a military solution.


57 posted on 03/11/2019 3:31:34 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Ouderkirk

If the us goes in to throw Maduro and cronies out, all it will do is create resentment in the Venezuelan peoples themselves S well as other South American people. They’ll look at us as imperialists and will resent their loss of face as well.


58 posted on 03/11/2019 3:37:13 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: bert

Mismanagement and idiocy can easily cause a single event to destroy multiple turbine generator sets. Doesn’t have to be the computer controls - and remember that most of the competent people have already fled.

Russia recently had a mechanical failure in a single turbine that took out the entire station’s power output: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano%E2%80%93Shushenskaya_power_station_accident


59 posted on 03/11/2019 3:37:33 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: catnipman

re: “Other experts, including Mr. Aguilar, said the magnitude of the blackout indicated the problem was caused by a major failure inside Guri’s turbines”

Idiots.

IF it’s a ‘plant’ with generators, it’s NOT a SUBSTATION, it’s a GENERATING STATION!!

Idiots.


60 posted on 03/11/2019 3:39:15 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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