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Venezuela Suffers Nationwide Blackout in Latest Power Outage:
Venezuela has suffered a nationwide power cut, including the capital, Caracas, which the country's Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said was caused by an "electromagnetic attack".
[...] The lights went out in most of Caracas at 4:41pm (20:41 GMT) while people in other parts of the country took to social media to report the power had gone out there too in the first major blackout since March.
"These blackouts are catastrophic," said 51-year-old janitor Bernardina Guerra, who lives in Caracas. "I live in the eastern part of the city and there the lights go out every day. Each day things are worse."
At least 14 Venezuelan states lost power on Monday, according to Reuters witnesses and reports on social media.
The state-owned power company Corpolec only reported a breakdown affecting sectors of the capital, Caracas.
[...] Blackouts are a common occurrence in Venezuela, especially in remote western regions.
The government usually blames them on sabotage but experts say that a lack of investment, poor management and corruption are the more likely culprits.
The oil-rich country's hyperinflationary economic crisis has led to widespread shortages in food and medicine, prompting more than four million Venezuelans to leave the country.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 23 2019, @07:56PM (2 children)
you can replace the "standard" size 12V battery in UPS with a bigger (more Ah) one, no problem.
fuses for cars (12V standard) are cheap and work, so dont forget to add one (max. VA of UPS /12V) on the plus pole cable from battery to UPS.
also, if everything goes sideways, you can parallize 12 V solarpanels (parallel =more A per sunshine-hour) to charge the UPS battery ...
sell your oil ONCE venezuelans, buy batteries and solarpanels and charge and discharge them many many times. it's like a cake that grows back. bon appetit!
(Score: 0, Troll) by NPC-131072 on Tuesday July 23 2019, @10:28PM
Hello Fren,
We won't be eating batterys under glorious socialism, what do you take us for? [thedailybeast.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @01:49AM
Sell oil? And be Capitalist? Now you're talking! With everything nationalized, I guess the government can be an even bigger capitalist than those before!