Last Thursday, along with the live broadcasts from yet another grand illumination somewhere with 500,000 LED lights twinkling in some shopping mall, was a news item about a temporary power drop in our area. Because of trouble with a transformer somewhere the voltage dropped by 40% for about 0.07 seconds… That’s right, it wasn’t a power cut, just a reduction, for less than one tenth of a second. As a result, factories all over the area came to a halt, some shut down for a day or more, and a Toshiba semiconductor plant’s output in January and February may be cut by 20~30% as a result. Hard to believe, but it’s true.
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- RT @Dolkun_Isa: I cannot say "happy mothers day" to my mother. She can’t hear my voice. because she was killed by the CCP in one of the co… - posted 31 minutes ago
- RT @neko_guruma01: When he was CCS, Suga said nothing but "I don't know (承知してない)" at pressers to protect his boss Abe, which earned him hig… - posted 16 hours ago
- RT @OnPointRadio: We discuss what we need to understand about the story China tells about itself. What does China want its future to be? Ho… - posted 17 hours ago
- RT @Gizmodo: Too Bad, Zuck: Just 4% of U.S. iPhone Users Let Apps Track Them After iOS Update dlvr.it/RzJScl https://t.co/S6FD8kqZ… - posted 1 day ago
- That WP article: "If ever there was a time and place to remember that the IOC is a fake principality, an oft-corrup… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… - posted 1 day ago
