The entire European grid is fucked and hanging on by a thread.
All it takes is a cold winter, shortage of coal or gas, no wind, a reactor going down for maintenance or just someone deciding to start shooting out transformers.
Any of these things alone will stress the grid to the breaking point, two or more at once will plunge the entire continent into rolling blackouts, people dying in hospitals and manufacturing shutting down and sending the workers home.
When the power is on the rates will be massive, ruinous even. And when it's off people will sit at home in the dark, cold and hungry wondering how they'll be able to afford their next gas and power bill and whether they'll have a job to go back to.
We'll see how long it takes for the average European middle class to reach their breaking point, and what that entails. Historically it's been.....spicy.
The entire European grid is fucked and hanging on by a thread.
All it takes is a cold winter, shortage of coal or gas, no wind, a reactor going down for maintenance or just someone deciding to start shooting out transformers.
Any of these things alone will stress the grid to the breaking point, two or more at once will plunge the entire continent into rolling blackouts, people dying in hospitals and manufacturing shutting down and sending the workers home.
When the power is on the rates will be massive, ruinous even. And when it's off people will sit at home in the dark, cold and hungry wondering how they'll be able to afford their next gas and power bill and whether they'll have a job to go back to.
We'll see how long it takes for the average European middle class to reach their breaking point, and what that entails. Historically it's been.....spicy.