“Crisis” in Spain and Portugal

What is going in Spain and Portugal? Was this an experiment to see how westerners cope without electricity for a few hours? Are they getting them prepared for worse? Why can people deal with it in South Africa but not in Spain and Portugal? Have they never heard of candles? Do they not read books? Can they not go without for more than one day?

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Patriot96 · 56-60, C

Where are the windmills

SW-User

@Patriot96 Wind turbines need power to operate, and all electricity was gone. It was gone in seconds across Spain, Portugal, and other parts of Iberia.

JamesBugman

@SW-User Pretty sure a wind turbine makes electricity from wind, it doesn't need it to operate. :)

MethDozer · M

@JamesBugman Depends on the type of generator being turned. Generators can be either self-exciting or passive-exciting. A self exciting ac generator starts producing as soon as it spins as it stores some residual energy in flux. A passive generator needs external power to create a flux state in order to start generating. That's why in many vehicles the alternator won't charge a completely dead battery, many of them need some power supplies to them initially when they start spinning to generate current