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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/68257855

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[–] Akrenion@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which country was that? I am only aware of the large outage in southern Europe which was due to fossil plants not following regulations.

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 7 points 1 week ago

chile lol, it was a crazy experience it lasted long enough for the cell network to fail, I was fortunately in home but it was chaotic for people going home at the time, the goverment ordered a curfew to be had at night so people also were in a hurry, and it was quite a thing lol, I only had the radio left to inform myself on what was happening and it was crazy stuff hearing how they talked about the efforts to cold start the grid back again, they had to do like 3 attempts before success, "the Rapel dam is on maximum power, trying to provide energy to x power plan who then may be able to provide energy to..."