Monkey stumbles into a power plant, sends Kenya on a nationwide blackout
Jun08
I wish the headline was a metaphor, but it’s literally what happened. On Tuesday evening, a monkey scaled the roof of Kenya Electricity Generating Company, KenGen for short, and fell on to a transformer. From here we have a twisted version of dominoes: With the monkey on the transformer, the machine stopped its electrical flow. Once that first transformer stopped, every other one tripped as well, triggering a national blackout for approximately three to four hours. The KenGen power plant the monkey fell into is the country’s largest, which generates about 10 percent of electricity nationwide. All in all, the company said…
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