Re:Europe braces for mobile network blackouts
by landemva on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:10PM
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There have been logistics issues getting coal to the plants. It feels like energy production followed the manufacturing motto of "just in time" instead of stockpiling the input coal. This lack of resilience was unnecessary.
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Re:Europe braces for mobile network blackouts
by hef19898 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:55PM
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I am not aware cial, usually shipped in bulk and very easily stored, was ever delivered JIT. But whatever, JIT was already the reason why the chip supply from Asia to overseas car factories was disrupted, at least according to certain people without the slightest clue of how JIT works. Or supply chains in general...
Re:Europe braces for mobile network blackouts
by avh02 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @07:00AM
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not sure exactly what disruptions they did on the storage area, but this happened recently: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-arrests-as-climate-protests-di...
Re:Europe braces for mobile network blackouts
by cinntaile on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:41PM
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It is an ad hoc solution to the current situation so I'm not surprised it's not exactly smooth sailing. It doesn't help that they recently shut down some of their reactors, they could have at least kept them open until the situation stabilized.