Inspired by the very similar thread about school incidents.

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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    28 days ago

    It slowed down a bit, and then we quickly learned that maintaining the perfect 50hz wasn’t actually necessary anymore. Few people still have clocks that depend on it

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      28 days ago

      I’m not talking about the incident in Romania, but in Germany.

      A shipyard needed some wires over a river deactivated and that caused an overload cascade, because the river was the border between two providers who had different assumptions about the capacity of the power lines connecting them.