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2019-03-12 Caribbean-Latin America

Here’s why Venezuela’s partial blackouts are unfortunately likely to persist for a while

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1 AOC would say it's a perfect opportunity to stop using that icky turbine generated electricity stuff...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-12 10:19|| 2019-03-12 10:19|| Front Page Top

2 Here'swhy Venezuela's partial blackouts are unfortunately likely to persist for a while.

Because anything other than socialism.

Posted by gorb 2019-03-12 11:22|| 2019-03-12 11:22|| Front Page Top

3 Sounds like an adjacent step-up transformer yard next to the Guri power plant blew up when they tried to re-start the turbines there. Nobody had shut them down before restarting the turbines ('phased startup') and they went to 100% immediately...and you can guess the rest.

Kind of like restarting your 1/2-ton truck from a dead-stop while in gear, uphill, and towing 50K lbs. Something is gonna give.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-03-12 12:18|| 2019-03-12 12:18|| Front Page Top

4 The whole thing reads like a lost chapter of Atlas Shrugged.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-12 12:29|| 2019-03-12 12:29|| Front Page Top

5 The whole thing reads like a lost chapter of Atlas Shrugged.

Agreed

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-03-12 12:40|| 2019-03-12 12:40|| Front Page Top

6 Bovine topics are generally Burg winners.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-12 13:29|| 2019-03-12 13:29|| Front Page Top

7 Nobody had shut them down before restarting the turbines

So is that our fault, too?

Posted by gorb 2019-03-12 13:36|| 2019-03-12 13:36|| Front Page Top

8 Shutdown and startup procedures are a social construct of the white man, and this is a CIA infiltration plot on the dam to steal electricity and keep South America poor.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-03-12 15:36|| 2019-03-12 15:36|| Front Page Top

9 Shutdown and startup procedures are a social construct of the white man, and this is a CIA infiltration plot on the dam to steal electricity and keep South America poor.

They've really never liked electricity or well chambre bien éclairée.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-12 17:20|| 2019-03-12 17:20|| Front Page Top

10 So is that our fault, too?

Opns manuals in English.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-12 17:29|| 2019-03-12 17:29|| Front Page Top

11 The guys in the video at the 5:07 mark. Third world engineering expertise...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zltVGa5sk

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-12 17:46|| 2019-03-12 17:46|| Front Page Top

12 No power, no water pressure. No running sewers.

Next, disease.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-12 20:16|| 2019-03-12 20:16|| Front Page Top

13 Don't worry - they have Cuban doctors.

Top men. Top. Men.

Posted by Frank G 2019-03-12 21:01|| 2019-03-12 21:01|| Front Page Top

14 Corpoelec defaulted on bonds on April 10, 2018 without paying anything on the principle or interest to bond holders.

Posted by Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 2019-03-12 21:33|| 2019-03-12 21:33|| Front Page Top

15 those rayycciss capitalist pig bondholders!

Posted by Frank G 2019-03-12 21:57|| 2019-03-12 21:57|| Front Page Top

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