When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages. A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy. A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror...
Brian King, Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Power Group and Member of the Group Technical Staff Most isolated low-power AC/DC power supplies tend to use the flyback topology due to its simplicity and decent efficiency. Removing the isolation requirement allows other topologies to be used,...
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Presents the remarks by President George W. Bush on August 14, 2003 regarding the power blackout in portions of North America. Solutions made by the U.S. government to the power blackout; Cause of the blackout; Comments on the issue regarding the security of the power grid in the country...
Martin Luther King, Jr., the government decided it was time to take another look at its gun control laws. The Gun Control Act of 1968 updated verbiage on destructive devices to include things like bombs, mines, and grenades, and added the definition for machine guns. The bill also banned ...
Broome County Emergency Services officials say they were aware of power out in some areas although the scope had been unclear. There had been no word from the utility concerning what was behind such a wide area losing power. According to the Outage Central listing, areas like the Towns of Ba...
Ethereum scaling network Arbitrum reported a “partial outage” Friday, bringing activity on the Arbitrum One blockchain to a standstill for the first time since June. Offchain Labs, the company that developed Arbitrum, announced that the network stalled at 10:29am ET Friday due to “a signifi...
The Canadian pop-country veteran was performing “That Don’t Impress Me Much” when an explosion downtown triggered a power outage. Unshaken, Twain waited and chatted with fans in the audience before restarting the song when a secondary power source kicked in “within five minutes,” according...
As you set out to prepare your emergency outage kit, you'd do well to take an inventory of all the essential items in your house that rely on electricity to run. This will help you plan for the number and size(s) of batteries your kit should include and other energy sources (like a...
The design also incorporates spare capacity that is integrated into many elements to tolerate certain faults without requiring an outage or parts replacement. Advanced availability techniques are used to mitigate the impact of other faults that are not directly correctable in the hardware. Features ...