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[Arx]

Today's newspaper had a medium-length article on Belgium's electricity issues - apparently 4 or 5 nuclear reactors that shouldnt be down are down for various reasons, the import capacity from France and Netherlands are at full capacity or near already and parts of the country(some cities) are advised to save electricity at certain hours.

How long as it been this bad, only now when the weather has gotten colder? Any signs of relief? 

Damn, this happens in Europe too? Wow.

[LordSlowpoke]

Today's newspaper had a medium-length article on Belgium's electricity issues - apparently 4 or 5 nuclear reactors that shouldnt be down are down for various reasons, the import capacity from France and Netherlands are at full capacity or near already and parts of the country(some cities) are advised to save electricity at certain hours.

How long as it been this bad, only now when the weather has gotten colder? Any signs of relief? 

Damn, this happens in Europe too? Wow.

being dumb fucks re: electricity transcends mere nations or continents

(thanks merkel)

[Loud Whispers]

Grumpy old men in pubs, and by extension UKIP, want out of the EU.

I'm not a grumpy old man, I'm a grumpy young man!
And dammit if I don't hate the taste of alcohol.

Grumpy pub crawlers and British are redundant when used in the same sentence.

[Sergarr]

I don't think I ever remember there being any shortages of electricity in Russia (except that one time when a nuclear substation suddenly went out of work for half a day).

Yaaay

[scriver]

Sweden has been closing some of it's nuclear reactors "for maintenance" over winter for some years now.

In other Swedish news, today marks one year since the attack on a peaceful anti-racism march by militant neonazis. With immaculate timing the vice-Speaker of the Rikstag - of the we're-totally-not-racist-guise Sweden Party - made a declaration in an opinion piece that Jews, Sami, and Tornedal-Finns don't count as Swedish.

[10ebbor10]

Today's newspaper had a medium-length article on Belgium's electricity issues - apparently 4 or 5 nuclear reactors that shouldnt be down are down for various reasons, the import capacity from France and Netherlands are at full capacity or near already and parts of the country(some cities) are advised to save electricity at certain hours.

How long as it been this bad, only now when the weather has gotten colder? Any signs of relief? 

Damn, this happens in Europe too? Wow.

I mentioned it quite a few times. Short recap :

Doel 1 : Doing fine, but will run out of fuel in february. No new fuel provided. Reactor normally scheduled for decommissioning, though that might change.
Doel 2: Doing fine, but will run out of fuel late 2015. No new fuel provided. Reactor normally scheduled for decommissioning, though that might change.
Doel 3: Cracks in the primary reactor vessel. Not dangerous now, could result in problems later. Might restart first of april, next year.
Doel 4: Sabotage resulted in heavy damage to the steam turbine. Should restart 31 december

Tihange 1: Doing fine.
Tihange 2: Cracks in the primary reactor vessel. Not dangerous now, could result in problems later. Might restart first of april, next year.
Tihange 3: Doing fine. A transformer blew up last month, but that was fixed within 2 days.

Oh, and our last 500 MW coal unit went on strike, so there's that.

The media has been panicking about it for the last few months, but so far we haven't had any shortages yet. Nor any predicted shortages. We will remain import dependent, but we have been for the last few years. Barring a spontaneous failure of 2 more large power units, or a sudden cold snap across continental Europe, I don't expect any shortages.

[Sergarr]

...Barring a spontaneous failure of 2 more large power units, or a sudden cold snap across continental Europe, I don't expect any shortages...

And now that you've jinxed it, we can expect just that happening.

[Erkki]

So nothing to worry too much about - yet.

Belgium probably has an array of gas turbines so going in the red isn't the end of the world... Just expensive.

[Sergarr]

Is it 21st or 22st December that is the "end of the Mayan era" day?

[Dutchling]

Wasn't that like two years ago?

[smeeprocket]

Yea, 2012, end of the world came and went.

[10ebbor10]

So nothing to worry too much about - yet.

Belgium probably has an array of gas turbines so going in the red isn't the end of the world... Just expensive.

Yeah,  quite a bit of nat gas, and 3.6 GW of import capacity.

But powerprices were already going to rise dramatically thanks to some of the previous governements descisions, so...

Yea, 2012, end of the world came and went.

It's a biyearly event now.

[Sergarr]

I have a personal theory that Mayans were off by two years, because the sheer pile-up of bad events in this years is staggering, compared to the previous ones.

[smeeprocket]

Maybe this past decade or so has just been one long string of Mayan extinction events.

Though I always thought the Mayans just felt like going past the date they ended at was silly, it's not like they couldn't calculate more of their calendar after what? 500 or so years?

[Graknorke]

It's a cyclical thing. Years are grouped into eras because reasons, then once the era's done it's into the next one.