A large part of that big electrical outage on the Iberian Peninsula recently was a lack of spinning mass from thermal power plants to keep the grid frequency stable.

That was one of the hypotheses on the day. However, the final report says:

In particular, the analysis of the impact of inertia indicates that, even with significantly higher inertia values, the loss of system synchronism would not have been avoided, considering the sequence of events.

And If my Grandma^W robot had wheels, it'd be a bicycle.

Where are my engines Jeff?!!!

Ooops, force of habit, nevermind....

"Camelot!"

"Camelot!"

"Camelot!"


"It's just generated content ."

You can have subscriptions without annoying paywalls. I have no subscription to NYT and I make no effort to try to get their article details without one. But I still wind up in their subscription funnel because they purposely pursue a strategy of providing just enough access to get the link. It is at least mildly annoying to me and I don't think NYT is planning on compensating me for my wasted time the way they want to be compensated for their effort.

(That said I don't care enough to say there should actually be a prohibition on them doing that.)

FINE! I'll start MY OWN timezone . With BLACKJACK and HOOKERS!

Good thing they don't do anything complicated up there like scheduling trains. Or airplanes.

It might not be good news: it might just be that that was all that was left.

I foresee another $1,000,000 buy of Trumpcoin in CZ's near future.

How do MORONS manage to amass 6.3 BILLION dollars to lose?

It looks like the continually failing New York Times hasn't updated their style guide.
The proper term is now " Super Intelligence /s ".

Also it was 400,000 trees. The 250,000 was just one of two sites.

It's not the same when the person refusing to accept the result isn't the incumbent in command of the police and army.

Because it has good taste?

It's also the supermarket where I buy shower gel.

has been there since ww2 ... Anyone can be rich if they’re handed a cheat code.

In the case of the USA, WWII handed you two. Almost all of the other industrialised countries were rebuilding from having their factories bombed. And the UK handed you the brand new computer industry on a plate by destroying all the computers it had built during the war while not requiring that you do the same with the licensed copies you had built.