Shit is Weird these days. I get that. And let's face it, the news stories half the time are like something out of a really bad b movie- the kinda things that make you wonder if the mushrooms in the omelette you had at lunch were maybe a little more "special" than usual...
But then along comes a "news story" that stretches your ability to suspend your disbelief so hard that it snaps back and slaps your dazed "WTF?" expression right off your face.
This is one of "Those" stories.
European clocks lose six minutes after dispute saps power from electricity grid
A row between Kosovo and Serbia is draining energy from the continent’s 25-nation system, causing electronic clocks to fall behind
Europeans who have been arriving late to work or school in recent weeks have more than just the bad weather to blame. The real reason is an unprecedented lag in the continent’s electricity grid that is causing some clocks to run too slowly.
The problem is caused by a political dispute between Serbia and Kosovo that is sapping a small amount of energy from the local grid, causing a domino effect across Europe’s 25-nation synchronized high voltage power network spanning the continent from Portugal to Poland and Greece to Germany.
WOAH!! Wait just a fuckin' second..... so they are saying that a power drainage is effecting digital clocks so that they are "slowing down"......?!
.... I have never heard such a load of bullshit in my life- and let me tell you, I've debunked some doozy science bullshittery over the years.
“Since the European system is interconnected ... when there is an imbalance somewhere the frequency slightly drops,” ... The continental network had lost 113GWh of energy since mid-January because Kosovo had been using more electricity than it generates.
Lets put this into perspective (the energy consumption piece): They are saying that the "Continental Network" lost 113GW (that is, 113 gigawats of power)
- Hoover Dam is a 2 GW facility
- Indian Point nuclear power plant has two 1 GW reactors
- Plant Bowen in Georgia, the largest coal power plant in the U.S. puts out 3.5 GW
So total, those 3 major American power producers put out 6.5GW a day
-31 days in January, 28 days in February = 59 days.
.... They are saying that Kosovo is the cause of the European power grid loosing the equivalent of the Hoover Dam or Indian Point Nuclear power plant's daily output..... and that lost of approximately 2GW per day was enough to make digital clocks SLOW DOWN...
..............cough * cough * cough * bullshit * cough * cough.
So the question is: WHAT REALLY MADE EUROPEAN CLOCKS SUDDENLY LOOSE 6 MINUTES OF TIME?
Inquiring minds want to know
d
Well, this is kind of like the "men in black" saying it was swamp gas.
The real reason destroys "modern science".
That fraud Einstein, wipe him from the scientific record.
First off, only very early digital electric clocks used the line frequency to keep time. Its a neat trick, you can get 60 pulses a second, from rectifying the mains voltage. And, thus you can make a really cheap clock with discreet digital components. Now, we use a crystal to get our time, and the chip is an all in one thingy. Nothing else needed.
With a crystal, you provide a DC voltage, and it provides pulses at the frequency it was designed for (specifically grown and cut).
The speed of light is supposed to be constant. That is what that fraud Einstein said. However, measuring the speed of light, it was changing over time. Right up until scientists got together and set the speed of light.
Gravity also fluctuates. Although it is supposed to be a constant derived from mass.
And, lately, the magnetic sphere of earth has been changing. So much so that they had to repaint the numbers on the ends of runways. (magnetic bearing)
So, it looks like we are seeing the leading edge of more changes happening. With a bunch of scientist that believe the laws of the universe are fixed.
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Swamp gas reflecting the light from Venus...
buhahahahha! One of my fav movie quotes :D
yes the fraud of the "Law" of Gravity, and the "Law" of Mass,,..... and don't even get me started on "light speed"!!!!!!
d
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Powerloss could maybe.. perhaps.. have that kind of effect in analog locks, but to digital locks that will run as they are programmed to run or they don't work at all. There is no between in digital technology, at least not in that fashion that all clocks run late.
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bingo! exactly- it's an all or nothing.
d
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Really? This is so much bullshit, it's mind-boggling. I'm sure it's that fucking CERN shit messing with 'reality'...(Excuse me whilst I dig out me tin-foil hat).
This is as patently daft as the recent press reports that skies in Derbyshire, where I live, have been turning all kinds of weird colours due to a 'tomato grower in Liverpool' who uses LED lights in his polytunnels. REALLY? Do the masses REALLY buy this absolute shite? Oh, yes, hmm, they actually do...
Dani, the GOOD thing is that WE do NOT!
Thanks for sharing - duly filed under 'wtf?!' and upvoted...
Jay xx
ETA: I just spotted your tags - cern and conspiracy! heheh - I can remove the tin foil! What a relief!
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Hi steemians,
I just wrote a post about this too and the explanation is quite easy.
The European power net normally has 230V at 50Hz.
This 50Hz fluctuate of course. Sometimes it might be 49HZ and later again 51Hz. On the long term, it's 50Hz average.
Clocks that calculate the time based only on the 50Hz average had some problems because the average since beginning 2018 was below 50Hz caused by power shortages.
So the reason for this is not as complicated as it might look at the first sight.
Here the comment of the ENTSO-E (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity)
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