Or a so-called "free market" country listens to greeniacs and climatista kooks and demolishes its own highly reliable, low-cost power industry as tribute to Gaia.
Posted on 10/19/2024 11:04:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
While the causes of the crisis are multifaceted, the country-wide blackout is a new low for the government — and those Cubans still living on the island. Amid growing desperation, an unprecedented number of Cubans are trying to migrate to the U.S. by any means possible. The island has lost an estimated 10 percent of its population over the last three years.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
The article seems to just blame the USA/Trump & Hurricane Milton
Load all of our prison population on boats and send them to Cuba.
Solar flares? Or how about typical communist incompetence?
Socialism. That’s why.
“a deepening economic crisis, compounded by the U.S. embargo and widespread food shortages”
When has it ever been different there?
Or in any Communist country?
The US embargo makes no difference whatsoever. They have access to virtually every other market on Earth and subsidies from all sorts of places that should know better. Somehow nothing ever seems to work.
Funny that.
Cuba had a pretty thriving economy up until 1959 or so. Then they had a communist revolution and their economy has been in the toilet for 65 years or so. And, from the beginning, and even today, they seem to blame America for their horrible economy. But maybe — just maybe — communism doesn’t work.
Or a so-called "free market" country listens to greeniacs and climatista kooks and demolishes its own highly reliable, low-cost power industry as tribute to Gaia.
This is what socialism is in real life.
This is what the Democrats want to bring to the U.S.
“Cuba’s power grid collapses again. Why does this keep happening?”
uh, because C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-M?
the commies don’t know how to run the complex machines that they steal ... just like Venezuela and their stolen oil refineries ...
Of course. It’s NPR. Same crpp the left has been saying for decades — never explaining why the Cuban leadership is STILL too incompetent to cope 65 years later.
Send Newsome there to sort it out.
California has experience with grid failures
Democrats?
They have been hit by several hurricanes. I wonder if area-wise this is equivalent to what Florida and NC experienced?
California, you’re next.
Communism..
Electric systems without significant reserves are only as stable as the loads they serve.
In Cuba, the high cost and lack of fuel along with the cost of maintenance and lack of capital to replace obsolete plants means there are few reserves or extra and reliable spare generation.
Another problem is that after a major power outage, doing a “black start” is quite difficult on a power grid. What needs to be done is to have some generation up and running and then gradually get other generation up and running and synchronized until a grid is restored. The problem is that when the grid is down, someone needs to establish some generation so off-line plants have sufficient electrical controls operating to start their generators and synchronize.
It’s the later.
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