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Completely agree - I love the Economist as a magazine, but will never be a subscriber again after how much time it took to cancel.

For what it is worth, Australia has 5 minute generator dispatch, but 30 minute settlement. The market operator is presently implementing a project to bring settlement to 5 minute a…

A few comments are saying that the author is too harsh on Samsung, but I get the impression that he actually admires Samsung's unscrupulous, unethical though ultimately canny busin…

There is a third way, one in which research is not a full-time endeavour, but is still a part of your life. It's certainly not for everyone, and is not "pure" in the sense that you…

A few years ago, I volunteered in SE Asia for 18 months using my electrical engineering skills to help rural villages get access to electricity. At the time, I'd been working profe…

This guy built a classic run-of-the-river scheme, i.e. the main stream is not dammed. He built an intake channel off the main stream that flows into a forebay, where the penstock a…

As a grid engineer, I find the Danish case to be somewhat unique because of their strong AC and DC interconnections to Germany and Sweden. Basically, they can free-ride on the larg…

If you look at the major blackouts around the world over the last 10 years, a large chunk of them were caused by a variation on a similar theme: - The network is heavily loaded pre…