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2009-03-24

The teatime deluge: how a British soap opera sets loose ten Niagara-sized waterfalls every evening



"In order to manage the electrical demands of a million tea kettles being turned on at once, then, British utility managers unleash a nightly deluge from reservoirs all over the island. Hundreds of billions of gallons of water are set loose to fall through hydroelectric turbines: it's roughly the equivalent of ten Niagara-sized waterfalls turned on for a few minutes while the tea boils"


http://vigorousnorth.blogspot.com/2009/01/teatime-deluge-how-british-soap-opera.html

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