🎧Blackout – Co by se stalo, kdyby na týden zmizela elektřina?

#HistoryOfTechnology #Blackout #Electricity #PowerGrid #Energy #Engineering #Infrastructure #emergencypreparedness What happens when it is not just one street that goes dark, but a large part of a country? In this episode of History of Technology, we follow the story of blackouts from the first urban power stations through major outages in North America, New York, Italy, India and Europe, all the way to today’s grid of cross-border flows, inverter-based generation and rapidly changing demand. We explain how the electrical grid keeps generation and consumption in balance, why frequency, voltage and reactive power matter, how cascading outages begin, and why neighboring countries can be just as important as the grid at home. In the final section, we walk through a realistic day-by-day scenario of a large-scale blackout: shops, payments, cash, petrol stations, hospitals, water utilities, telecommunications, police, firefighters, cameras, looting and the gradual restoration from darkness. This is not about fear. It is a look at the largest invisible machine of modern society — and why it works so well most of the time that we hardly notice it. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Reliability Explainer United States Federal Power Commission: Northeast Power Failure, November 9 and 10, 1965 Department of Energy: August 2003 Blackout U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force and NERC: Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Power Blackout Archive Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Impact Assessment of the 1977 New York Blackout Office of Justice Programs: Blackout Looting, New York City, July 13, 1977 UCTE and ENTSO-E: Final Report on the 28 September 2003 Blackout in Italy UCTE and ENTSO-E: Final Report System Disturbance on 4 November 2006 CEER: Blackout of 4 November 2006, ERGEG Final Report Government of India Press Information Bureau: Grid Disturbances on 30th and 31st July, 2012 Ministry of Power, Government of India: Report of the Enquiry Committee on Grid Disturbance in July 2012 CERC India: Report on the Grid Disturbance on 30th July and 31st July 2012 UK Government: Great Britain Power System Disruption Review, Final Report Ofgem: Investigation into 9 August 2019 Power Outage ENTSO-E: Final Report on the Separation of the Continental Europe Power System on 8 January 2021 ENTSO-E: 28 April 2025 Blackout in Continental Spain and Portugal, Final Report Red Eléctrica: Report on the Incident of 28 April 2025 FERC and NERC: Iberian Peninsula Blackout April 2025 Ready.gov: Power Outage Preparedness CDC: Power Outages and Safety National Academies: Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System 00:00 When the Invisible Machine Goes Dark 09:02 How the Grid Holds Frequency and Voltage 16:06 Blackouts That Changed the Rules 19:28 Cascades Across Countries 29:33 Modern Power Sources and Future Risk 34:56 Day by Day Without Electricity