Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias. This is the same spirit that animates our lists of 386 startup failure post-mortems and the 214 most expensive startup failures, as well as our list of the ...
Synchronous generators are “phase-locked.” Except for brief transients, they all see the same frequency everywhere in the grid. This too is physics on the stopwatch scale. Now, engineered controls begin to act. The speed governors at the power plants begin to adjust mechanical power to the ...