One powerplant for 75% of the country. What could go wrong?
One powerplant for 75% of the country. What could go wrong?
Hats off to central planning...
I’m thinking the same thing. If one power plant provides 75% of the country’s power, then that plant should have a team of engineers on site 24/7 who know how to fix anything that breaks in that plant. The engineering team should also have replacement components stored at the hydro-power plant for all key equipment at the plant, so they don’t have delays in shipping in replacement equipment. This long power outage is the result of incompetent management and corruption by a group of socialist thugs who have been running Venezuela into the ground for decades and skimming off billions of dollars in oil revenue.
It sounds like a huge mess, and I expect to see a team of Russians flying in soon on cargo planes loaded with replacement equipment. But I’m not sure even Russia has all the right kinds of replacement equipment. This mess may take weeks to fully repair.
Accusations that a cyber-attack by the USA caused this lengthy power outage are ridiculous. Cyber-attacks are just attacks on computing devices and servers that are connected to the internet. There’s no need for computers at a hydro-power plant to be connected to the internet. They could easily replace any damaged computers and then disconnect the local network from the internet and restart the plant, if that’s what the problem is. But the problems are apparently much larger breakdowns of heavy machinery and heavy electrical equipment. This is another example of the endless destruction and humanitarian crises caused by socialism and communism throughout history.