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One of the longest running threads on the original Diner Forum, I kept track ofthe increasing breadth & frequency of power outages around the globe. With the combination of NG shortages and high temperatures hitting the Northern Hemisphere right now, it looks as though this summer we will really begin the slide down the slope of Blackouts from Richard Duncan's Olduvai graph he published back in the 90s.

Obviously, Richard was off on his timeline since we're closer to the top of that hill than the bottom, where he had us by 2025. Things are not that bad here yet, but the Balkans are quite a bit closer to the bottom today.

We haven't hit full summer heat yet, so it will be interesting to see how the grid here handles power consumption this summer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nn140qp4do

Balkans hit by blackouts as heatwave persists

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