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Can they enforce this flight ban? Back to an energy crisis again then?
A workmate who happens to live in the Ukraine described the difficulty he faced last winter, securing heat and energy for his 4 child family plus wife.
The local govt. effectively turned off his electric and concentrated the power supplies to urban areas. Because they could. Basically he was on his own, as he lives in a rural area.No electric was available, for days at a time. " I nearly could have seen them killed by the cold">
Using the little tots, one of them a little boy of 3, he and the family dug themselves out of the 4 deep extensive snow drifts and he forced his way by car through to the in-laws and relative sanctuary.
This year he put in a wind turbine, a oil powered generator+tank and some solar panels... he's a clever lad, an electrical engineer and well capable of rapid improvisation.
Life in the Ukraine for millions of ordinary folk.
Good job we've got loads of power supply surplus in England for countering Generals January and February hmmmm?