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Related HN discussion about UK power demand surges due to millions of kettles being simultaneously turned on during TV breaks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
by quartz 3y ago
Related HN discussion about UK power demand surges due to millions of kettles being simultaneously turned on during TV breaks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5018560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5018560
- AdamN 3y agoTV Pickup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup) also leads to the political issue where one of the drivers of Brexit was that the 'EU' wanted to 'take away' traditional kettles because there was a proposal to embed a warm up cycle of a few seconds into the heating element so it didn't have spiky power consumption which caused very large amounts of simultaneous draw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAzalhldg8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAzalhldg8