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Very. It means that the grid suddenly lost a significant amount of generating power.
by jaywalk 6y ago
Very. It means that the grid suddenly lost a significant amount of generating power.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoOr added a ton of load faster than it could ramp up
- fennecfoxen 6y agoThe graphs show the frequency falling off a cliff, which is more consistent with a sudden loss.
- jaywalk 6y agoIt could be that, too. But I'm at a loss trying to think of how that much load could be added so suddenly.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoI didn't feel like reading a low effort anecdote about that one time someone tried to run their house off of some rooftop solar and a golf cart battery and all his ceiling fans slowed down and everything died when the fridge kicked on so I figured I'd bring load based frequency reduction into the discussion on my own terms. I can't think of any practical way to use that much power all at once either. On a small country size grid with a lot of renewables that can't ramp quickly I could see some foundries pulling it off.
- davrosthedalek 6y agoMaybe somebody connected woodpecker [1] to the European grid? But I guess even that does not need enough power. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar
- shawabawa3 6y agoWikipedia says that's 10MW The drop was around ~4.5GW
- GekkePrutser 6y agoI know your joking but it's been dead for more than 30 years :) Only the antenna remains (and the only one still standing was the receiver, not the transmitter). Though people have hooked up amateur radio equipment to it AFAIK.