We're back. If you live…

We're back. If you live off grid in Spain, the recent blackout was a nothing burger. If you depend on a national grid, you should be furiosly re-thinking your position.

Talk of electrification as a cureall for the world has to include decentralisation at its core, otherwise the "unintended" consequence of electrifying everything is a doubling down on the trend turning society into a dependent sitting duck.

Lessons learnt.

Most people are calm in a crisis as long as someone else is working things out.

The first reaction seems to be, how do we do exactly what we did yesterday when there was no crisis. Eg desparation for bread. Queueing for butane gas. Baffling.

Wáter needs electricity to pump It around. There was a rush for supermarkets and wáter in plastic bottles. To be so unprepared is laughable, except It is not funny.

Take a good look at Who you pay taxes to. Did they help you when the modern world was falling apart? The value of taxes tales on a different hue through that lense.

Anybody taking the Mickey out of solar as a part of the power mix clearly is talking hypothetically with no experience or appreciation of the value of limited power.

Crypto bros, make no mistakes, Cash is King, every other means of payment fails without power. So everybody needs to take that knowledge to the bank and demand cash is restored to the system, or find another way to get outside the financial system independent of national power supplies and financial providers.

There is always Talk of mesh networks, but Talk is cheap. Time to swat Up on using papers ledgers.

It is no consolation to know that Bitcoin tick tock Next block when nobody can access It.

Bog standard radio waves are still the bottomline means of communication. I bet the price of transistors and short waves in Spain Will never be as low as they were the day before the blackout.

I dont think anything meaningful Will change though.

#Spain #outage #asknostr