Power Blackouts – how you going to cope?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23081695

Self generation?
Blind hysterical panic?
Not give a stuff?

crank up the woodburner and light a candle.

standard issue at my current geographical location.

would cope much better at home as i dont need ac to keep the house at barable levels of temperature and humidity

Install woodburner then as Jambo.

May have to resort to non-electricity based recreation.

Ah, that’ll be our super privatised electricity companies at work…

Well done Maggie, Major, Blair, Brown, Cleggeron.

Fork handles

Will cope just fine.

Eat carrots.

Make sure my iPad is fully charged at all times.
Will fracking help? I’ll do a bit of that too.

Eat carrots
I’m sure that just said “Ear carrots”. Mental images…

*Checks wood pile. Has smug grin*

Have also got a generator and some leisure batteries & inverter just in case I need to get on to the STW forum in an emergency.

Candles, lamps with spare batteries, stove with spare cylinders for heating food and boiling water. Standby battery and solar charger for electronics. Not enough space for a standby generator though a kindly neighbour has one. That’s for the short term. Were we to suffer widespread interruption of supplies for days then it would get very nasty.

Simple, every office / apartment in Nigeria has one of these:

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Turbo trainer and a car alternator or two.

Get fit _and_ power the dishwasher.

Same as we did in the 70s and 80s get on with it.

Nigeria…. your gen is your most valued possession. The reason why there’s been zero investment in the public electricity supply over the years is that too many ministers are getting fat off the kickbacks they receive for the importation of gensets.

trail_rat – Member

standard issue at my current geographical location.

would cope much better at home as i dont need ac to keep the house at barable levels of temperature and humidity

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NEPA – Never expect power again !

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Well done Maggie, Major, Blair, Brown, Cleggeron.
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globalti – Member

Nigeria…. your gen is your most valued possession. The reason why there’s been zero investment in the public electricity supply over the years is that too many ministers are getting fat off the kickbacks they receive for the importation of gensets.

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To distribute power you need a network and they havent really looked after this very well, the transformer at my hotel has bare 11kv bus bars, we are currently out here installing gas engines on Private independent power plants, there also some big turbine stations being built, I have heard they used to export power out to Ghana and Cameroon were the networks were functionable.

Turns on emergency generator only to find internet doesn’t work 🙁

Fast track nuclear power stations or build 70 million windmills and fart at them

I’m gonna use as much as I can now while I can.

Fast track nuclear power stations or build 70 million windmills and fart at them

Just burn the gas instead!

footflaps – snap .

could take that photo outside just now.

trail_rat – Member
footflaps – snap .

could take that photo outside just now.

Hmmmm I smell a double login. 😉

Honda backup generator with 15-20 hours fuel stored. Only really need it for hot showers and keeping the freezer frozen.

Heating can be taken care of with the wood burners. Enough wood stored for 2 winters so we should be ok……

Better stock up on single malt and baked beans though. Looks like we only have a few days supply currently 😆

Was going off the idea but maybe I should install solar panels. Article says major users – I ain’t one of those so will be fine….

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trail_rat – Member
footflaps – snap .
could take that photo outside just now.

Hmmmm I smell a double login.

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What tyres for the Niger delta?

41 years ago I remember being taken shopping in a Woolworths lit by paraffin lamps and using mechanical cash registers. Life went on as normal. Now with electronic payment and automatic doors there have been incidences of stores shutting due to a temporary local power cut.

Whats Woolworths?

what’s 41 years ago?

It was a department store. You’re making me feel very old… Probably because I am old enough to remember the 70s power cuts. The first few were a novelty, and then the novelty wore off…

willard – bullet proof ones.

i mind we had a powercut one new years eve i worked on the bar back home.

we just got candles out , a cash float and did the maths manually and the band kept playing their instruments.

a good night was had by all

41 years ago people were still struggling with decimalization.

and some people from 41 years ago are still struggling with decimalisation

Frankly, i blame the Greens!

When asked “do you want nuclear power” they all shouted “NO”.

Unfortunately, they didn’t actually wait to hear the rest of the question which was “OR electricity blackouts, lawlessness and resulting zombie apocalypse”

I have an incredibly acute blue sky thinking suggestion.

it’s going to be a bit of a shock for most people and I don’t suppose it’s going to gain a huge amount of traction but here goes anyway.

Could we, you know, use less electricity?

Nah sorry, what a silly suggestion. Expecting people to contribute towards their own well being. Forget I asked.

Could we, you know, use less electricity?

Oh the irony of stating that on an internet forum!

Could we, you know, use less electricity?

That would be like asking people to use their cars less and walk, stupid boy.

Could we, you know, use less electricity?

All part of the new Green Conservatives. They’re reducing benefits to zero, which will mean that the poor can no longer afford any fuel (or food), so gas and electric consumption will fall, hence reducing our CO2 usage. There will be a slight blib caused by their decomposing bodies, but once we’re over that, it’s Green all the way!

Can we burn the bodies for fuel?

I assume they’ll be full of chip fat