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Comment Re:EU grid needs inertia or there will be blackout (Score 2) 146

What brought the Iberian electrical grid down wasn't I2R losses but unconstrained variations in frequency. Once the Iberian and French grids got too far out of sync that connection was dropped and failures kind of cascaded from there. Or something to that effect.

Those interconnects are HVDC. There is no "sync".

Frequency change is a symptom, not a cause. The cause was a lack of control over reactive power which then caused voltage instability.

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Comment Re: Who is "their?" (Score 1) 72

Your assumption is wrong. Gender can be known and it is still fine to use "their" as a pronoun.

From A Comedy Of Errors, Shakespeare, first published in 1623 - Act 4 Scene 3:

There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend,

So feel free to claim that I'm encouraging "pronoun dog whistle games". I don't care. You are wrong, and your foghorn of false indignation is far louder.

Comment Re:Still no testing for Coronavirus (Score 3, Interesting) 16

So what exactly is the point of cutting off travel to Europe?

IMHO, it's a purely political move by the US administration. Likewise the references to the "chinese" or "foreign" virus. And how the US administration can ban flights from Schengen countries, but the UK is fine given all our government has done so far is say "old people are going to die" and "wash your hands a lot".

Comment Whenever I travel to the US... (Score 3, Informative) 106

Whenever I travel to the US, one of the first things that I notice is different is the lax approach to card security. In most of Western Europe, pretty much every card transaction uses the chip. I can disable the mag-stripe on some of my cards (through the banks' online systems), and using magstripe anywhere increases the chance of a transaction being picked up by the banks' automated fraud detection systems. Then when you get to the US, you go into a restaurant, settle up by card with no signature and no pin, and then the restaurant can manipulate the transaction later to add whatever tip you wrote on the bill. Madness!

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