Rolling blackouts

[Baloo]

Energy crisis: Plan for three-hour power blackouts to prioritise heating in event of gas shortages

It is hoped that the lure of money back for households under an energy-saving scheme will help prevent the prospect of blackouts during the cold winter months ahead.

news.sky.com

Power banks and candles to be the toilet rolls and pasta of 2022?

 

[James]

I quite liked their most recent record.

 

[mcq10]

If only we had 12 years to think about energy security?

 

[Longy]

I quite liked their most recent record.

That’s what I thought was coming

 

[Keawyeds]

I could be being somewhat cynical, or catastrophising, but I can see burglary and crime to go up if there's blackouts.

 

[Georgewhitt]

If only we had 12 years to think about energy security?

Or just imagine how ridiculous it would be if every government since the 2nd world war had ignored energy security not just the last 12 years. Surely at least one of them must have done something about?
No?

 

[Harry Angstrom]

Great for stargazing if it’s at night. Also reading by candlelight. Looking forward to it.

 

[Keawyeds]

Great for stargazing if it’s at night. Also reading by candlelight. Looking forward to it.

When we were growing up if there was a power cut, we played Cluedo.

 

[Georgewhitt]

As a kid in the 70's it was really exciting.
As an adult 50 years later it is f***ing unforgivable.

 

[sidneyeric]

Ah well.

 

[Billericay Dichio]

Will we be able to see the Northern Lights from Essex?

 

[Keawyeds]

Will we be able to see the Northern Lights from Essex?

Depends what you mean by Northern Lights. We might just set Doncaster on fire and gather round it.

 

[Horace Cope]

When we were growing up if there was a power cut, we played Cluedo.

Good luck in the dark

 

[chriswallace85]

Remember when Dave said Labour would take us back to the 70s.

 

[Dadsarmy73]

Good for astronomers

 

[Billericay Dichio]

Depends what you mean by Northern Lights. We might just set Doncaster on fire and gather round it.

Do it. I'll lie to the young un.

 

[Keawyeds]

Good luck in the dark

We did have candles man ffs

 

[Exapno Mapcase]

Frozen food won't know what it's doing. In a world dominated by online access, from Twatter to paying bills, communicating, working from home, heating controls and home security, all reliant on electricity it will have an even bigger impact on us domestically than the 70s when few of us had freezers, central heating, even telephones, and the telly went off by midnight.

 

[42]

If only we had 45 years to think about energy security?

Corrected for the time lapsed since the previous blackouts

 

[SAFCOldie]

Frozen food won't know what it's doing. In a world dominated by online access, from Twatter to paying bills, communicating, working from home, heating controls and home security, all reliant on electricity it will have an even bigger impact on us domestically than the 70s when few of us had freezers, central heating, even telephones, and the telly went off by midnight.

Yep.