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 @hausfath: If emissions had peaked back in 2000 we would be skiing down a bunny slope toward 1.5C. Today we face a double black diamond,… - posted 1 hour ago
- RT @jhgage1: @StillDanLehrer @CynthiaSax @hausfath @robbie_andrew The IPCC SR15 reports that at 1.5°C we'll lose 70-90% of the world's trop… - posted 1 hour ago
- RT @9DashLine: "Kishida’s increasingly muscular security stances also reflect toughening attitudes towards China within Japan’s political e… - posted 1 hour ago
- RT @EvanFeigenbaum: If only there was one that already existed ... one that the US had played a major role in negotiating ... one that the… - posted 1 hour ago
- Good summary of pre-election politics in Japan. Commendably unhysterical about the JCP. twitter.com/nytimesworld/s… - posted 1 hour ago
