• Amju Wolf@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      The same thing that happens when you have electric or gas heating. It stops working, because none of those work without electricity nowadays. Hell if you have a coal/wood burner for central heating chances are it doesn’t work without electricity either.

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        1 year ago

        How often does it got out in Germany At least Finland built a Nuclear reactor to power most of the country unlike Germany which shut all their’s down

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          1 year ago

          In my house? Pretty much never. We have solar as well as a grid connection and can connect a generator as well.

          In fact, I even have a second stand alone portable solar system that we take camping. It’s not powerful enough to heat a house… but it is powerful enough for pretty much everything else. And I can heat my house with a fire if it came to that.

          Redundancy is the name of the game if you’re worried about reliability.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          afaik power never really goes out in western europe unless something happens to the infrastructure (e.g. lightning strike or tree falling on a power line), what instead happens when we run out of generation capacity is that prices skyrocket.