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Science and engineering hit worst as Euroboffins do a little Brexit of their own from British universities

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Re: Well, you're leaving

in Indonesia they had a total shutdown of the power grid after a single gas powered turbine failed. And incidentally the whole gird is gas turbine powered!

That's a fairly classic symptom of generators designed to protect themselves from overload by disconnecting, instead of having grid-level management that sheds load to protect the grid as a whole. You quickly get a cascade of disconnections, and it makes no difference what power source feeds the generators.

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