2018-03-12

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Tom Scott

Many people sent me this story: it covers my favourite topics of power grids and temporal anomalies. But when the mainstream press have already covered it, how could I add something more? The answer: by adding another pet topic, Unnecessary British Patriotism. And a teasmade.

Press release: https://www.entsoe.eu/news-events/announcements/announcements-archive/Pages/News/2018-03-06-press-release-continuing-frequency-deviation-in-the-continental-european-power-system.aspx

Teasmade: http://amzn.to/2oYrvxb [aff. link]

Update, April 8th 2018: they fixed the dispute, and ran the grid at 50.01Hz for a few weeks: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/european-grid-dispute-resolved-lost-6-minutes-returned-to-oven-clocks/

If you liked this, you may also like the video I made on how engineers keep the grid stable, and why it's getting more difficult: /youtube/video/5uz6xOFWi4A

Audio mix by Matt Gray: http://mattg.co.uk

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