[60783] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Fri Aug 15 19:15:26 2003
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:18:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, gherbert@gw.retro.com
In-Reply-To: <200308152229.h7FMTON27760@gw.retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >> >Then run parts at 105-110% and it gets really hard.
> >>
> >> The power industry designs a grid that runs so close to capacity that if^W
> >> when something big fails, the whole grid shuts down in a cascade. They
> >> know it:
> >
> >Rubbish again.
> >
> >Welcome to the wonderful world of physics. Ask your favourite physics
> >professor what does
> >
> > E1 = E2
> >
> >in context of yesterdays events.
>
> That's not really answering the question, and it's also not
> entirely right.
>
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> But you *can't* just simplify this to Ein = Eout.
No, it is spinning physics that does not work - physics *is* simple as long
as one does not skip the linkage between different things:
Econsumed = Econsumed_productive + Qreleased + Wreqired
Econsumed_productive is what you actually used
Qreleased is the energy released in a form of a increase/decrease heat
Wrequired is the work required to get Econsumed.
Alex
