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We all know that not all areas of Afghanistan provides you with electricity 24/7, but the question is if this kind of announcement is going to be common in northern Europe, and other countries where we for over 50 years have had an almost perfect supply of electricity?

A few months ago I would not for a second have believed any civilised government would allow our electricity to deteriorate to a state where we would not have a 24/7 constant supply. After all, our whole industrialised civilisation depends on an uninterrupted service.

However, recently I have become a little uneasy about this issue. The reason being, that several CEOs for large generators have forecast brownouts within a few years. Also, when we look at what is happening in Germany, where most of the country is heavily industrialised, the government is phasing out nuclear power at a very fast pace. As a compensation they hope more coal and wind will fill the gap.

The problem with the German approach, as I see it, is that they become very dependent on lending capacity from French nuclear, amongst others, and the wind turbines are no guarantee for 24/7 supply.

If Germany's electricity supply worsens, this could cause a ripple effect to countries like Denmark, which is also getting more and more dependent on supplies from adjacent countries like Germany, Norway and Sweden.

I ask myself: Are our governments playing poker with our electricity supply and transferring the gain to funding of speculative renewable energy? Or are they blinded by their commitment to lower contribution of plant food, also called CO2?

If the reason for the governments strange and expensive strategy is to lower CO2 emissions, they are not doing a very good job, unless the endgame is de-industrialisation.

There are better, and more economical ways to approach lower CO2 emissions, I am sure. Better solutions will see daylight, but probably fist when our current financial crises has worsened and dragged on for many more years, and when the people begin to experience brownouts.

In a new era, I am sure even governments will realise the need for using high density flux energy sources like nuclear, and hopefully thorium nuclear (LFTR/MSR), which can almost totally eliminate our current nuclear waste.

All the bad energy policy is not spawn out of lag of seriously good experts, but rather out of idealistic and centralised political dictatorship, based on fear of "peak oil", "bad coal", CO2 "pollutant", and the false impression that low density flux energy, like wind, is sweet to nature and good for long term energy supply.

What will actually happen if the grid gets unstable? We are assured modern grids are safe, and that a total blackout is extremely unlikely. Well, where have I heard that before? I hope we shall not experience a country wide blackout again. I experienced it once, decades ago in Denmark, when a heavily loaded high voltage transmission line in southern Sweden hit a tree. The transmission was automatically disconnected, which increased the load on other transmission lines, which became overloaded and disconnected, and so on and so on. This ripple effect caused total blackout in southern Sweden and the whole of Denmark. It was very close to propagate to Germany, if it was not for a fast reaction to disconnect the transmission lines between Denmark and Germany. As far as I remember, it took almost a week to get the grid up and running little by little. As I understand it, you cannot start a coal fired generator without a reference and without electricity on the power plant. The rescue back then, was an almost prehistoric giant diesel generator on a coal power plant called H.C Oerstedvaerket. The diesel engine is started with compressed air. They had one attempt to start it, after which it would take a week to fill the bottles with compressed air, for a new attempt. Luckily the big diesel started first time, after many years of inactivity.

My point with this blackout story is, that the grid is very complicated, and a failing grid is a catastrophe in any modern industrialised country with large cities. Piglets will die, luting will be sever, no water, no heating, no emails, no fuel for transportation, no electrical trains, almost "no nothing", as the Americans say.

So although our whole civilisation depend on 24/7 electricity, the government is removing any sign of science and cleverness from the electricity generating industry.