{"id":1712,"date":"2014-11-16T19:13:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2014-11-17T07:03:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:03:33","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"A Beginners Guide to Blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Beginners Guide to Blackouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anticipating blackouts has become a new national sport in the UK. I can recall blackouts as a child. I\u2019m guessing this was during the first 1974 oil shock when OPEC first flexed its muscles and Britain had a lot more oil fired power generation then than it does now. But a quick check shows that Britain was also in disarray because of strikes, especially striking coal miners. Blackouts were a time of excitement where whole towns went black, citizens reached for their candles and crooks reached for their crowbars.<\/p>\n

Things have moved on in the intervening 40 years with a much more complex society today dependent upon electronic communications, a myriad electronic devices and economic growth that is founded on reliable supplies of electricity.<\/p>\n

\"Blackout\"<\/p>\n

Figure 1<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c100 crowbars were nicked during the last blackout\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So why does the UK find itself on the threshold of blackouts? Or does it?<\/p>\n

The difference between power cuts and blackouts<\/strong><\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Beginners Guide to Blackouts. Anticipating blackouts has become a new national sport in the UK. I can recall blackouts as a child. I\u2019m guessing this was during the first 1974 oil shock when OPEC first flexed its muscles and Britain had a lot more oil fired power generation then than it does now. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[79,1191,1192],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-blackouts","tag-electronics","tag-power-demand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}