power shortage in Tokyo
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Kokubunji, 2022.03.22
The power generation company has announced that due to damage sustained in the large earthquake last week, the power plants in the north-east part of Japan are at maximum capacity, with zero spare. 0%. The country has two completely separate "grids" that run at a different frequency (50Hz vs 60Hz) and voltage (110v vs 100v). It's bonkers but that's technical debt for you. What this means is that when one part of the power generation grid is weakened, the other can't really help.
Needless to say, after yesterday's fantastic weather, today it's snowing. Going to be interesting.