[time-nuts] Blackout in Europe and power line frequency jump

Normand Martel martelno at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 7 12:29:32 EST 2006



--- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> A big cruise-boat needed to pass under a 400 kV line
> on the river
> Ems and to avoid trouble the turned it off during
> the passage.
> 
> That resulted in overloads elsewhere and all the
> cards came crashing
> down.
> 

Something tells me that the next cruise ship will have
to wait until 2:00 AM before passing below this
line!!!!

Normand Martel




 
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