[time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

[Mark Spencer]

Years ago I recall reading accounts of efforts in the U.S. and perhaps Canada to track down the cause(s) of small but noticeable changes in the frequency of certain regional power grids that seemed to occur at more or less the same time each day. 


Mark Spencer
mark at alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099

> On Feb 8, 2021, at 6:48 AM, Lux, Jim <jim at luxfamily.com> wrote:
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>> On 2/8/21 12:02 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>> Lux, Jim writes:
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>>> If you happen to own something like a steel mill running electric
>>> furnaces or an aluminum refinery, so you can manipulate the load...
>> More scary:  Several independent studies have shown that even relatively
>> moderate bot-nets in the hands of somebody who knows the math of grid
>> stability would mean no grid stability.
> This is a generalized concern with distributed generation (i.e. rooftop solar panels on houses), because a bug in the controllers for the line connected inverter could really screw things up. I suppose there's also concerns about  malicious activity, but fiascos like the NEST thermostats stopping  in winter of 2015/2016 are more likely.
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