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• Commented on WTF
  I took a copy of what's on there some time ago (I'm assuming the content of the site hasn't changed since he put it up). If anyone wants them then I could put them somewhere visible, but doing that while...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  That controls for that factor, then. Is this sort of disruption (in publishing) still a major thing, out of curiosity?...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Ah. That makes sense. I tend to forget how London geography actually works, since I spend most of my visits there on bits of railway....
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  I may be talking rubbish, but could some of it also be due to disarray of the publishing industry (due to the same common factor)? It's been a long time since I saw anything about it, so perhaps there isn't...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  I'd further guess that it's a pilot plant so they can see whether it works well enough to be worth building a bigger one later. The same firm apparently have another one of comparable size under construction, and another...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Well, it's a bit more than two hours (2 and a third); sorry - I shouldn't try and calculate things before having sufficient tea....
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  And what's a "cycle"? One day? That reads to me like they're saying "the capacity of the batteries, fully charged, is 196 MWh", and a "cycle" is a charge-discharge cycle. So all it means is "this facility can store...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  I was thinking of the loss of a single interconnector, which could still be a large instant change (largest single interconnector is 2GW) in either direction, regardless of the overall net flow across all interconnectors. For example, right now three...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  I would have thought that the Carrington Event scenario might well cause enough bother that it wouldn't make a lot of difference what Putin did or didn't do, really. Though I also get the impression (from brief looking at the...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  Good heavens: ERCOT seems to be a good general object lesson in How Not to Run a Grid. I'm sure no-one is putting their name down for having to do a black start (I don't think even Texas's most recent...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  That sounds like a conflation of two things: the Guardian hearing about a revision of what sounds like the plan for a "black start" of the National Grid (and coping with disruption while that happens) in the event that it...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  I have to wonder whether she was grimly hanging on because she didn't want Johnson involved in her funeral. I'm fairly sure Truss at least managed greater decorum than he would have....
• Commented on I can't even
  That would also make sense as a reason. I wonder if hospitals used them for that in the past, though I don't think they do now: just ordinary BS 1363 sockets with red notices on them about being for medical...
• Commented on I can't even
  Regarding Walsall Gauge plugs and similar: Yes, that is true, but it's not the same scale of problem you would have if you used some sort of computerised access control. I was also assuming that the building owner would own...
• Commented on I can't even
  I suspect that's easier than replacing them all with secure outlets and managing the access system for them. Providing cheap contract cleaners with the access tokens doesn't sound fun. I believe some places in the UK used to use special...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  Bit late to this one, but: in Switzerland (at least on the SBB), they actually announce "please leave the train using the doors on the (left|right) side, facing in the direction of travel". I think that was the form of...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  The US convention is in some ways not dissimilar: railways run either north/south or east/west, throughout their entire length. The choice of directions usually seems to bear at least some relation to the geographical situation, but not always, so you...