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 @queenlythings: @ClaraJeffery He just says things he's heard other people say. He hasn't a clue what it means. Nor does he have an hones… - posted 14 hours ago
- RT @Gizmodo: Facebook says it'll do fuck all about Trump's post calling for the military to shoot protesters. gizmodo.com/facebook-says-… https… - posted 14 hours ago
- RT @Robert_E_Kelly: Just to be clear, Trump is provoking a cold war w/ China solely to cover his a** on corona. This is rank opportunism, n… - posted 15 hours ago
- RT @StephenMcDonell: The Chinese Government and it’s supporters in #HongKong won’t speak about specific applications of this new law becaus… - posted 15 hours ago
- Resonances here in Japan too. twitter.com/RoknSpock/stat… - posted 15 hours ago
