From: petertdaniels@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 11:05:44 AM UTC-5, John Levine wrote:   
   > According to danny burstein :   
      
   > >[IEEE Spectrum]    
   > > To Free the Baltic Grid, Old Technology Is New Again    
   > >Spinning megamachines will safeguard the Baltic power grid as it    
   > >desynchronizes from the Russian grid ...   
   > >rest, which includes pictures of Big Machines which give me   
   > >flashbacks to the NYC Transit Authority substations:    
   >    
   > Those were AC-DC to provide 600V DC power. Similar design but wired    
   > quite differently. Ditto the ones under GCT to power the 750VDC third    
   > rail NYC lines.    
      
   Y'all might recall that the subway stopped generating its own power    
   and got hooked up to the grid shortly before the Great Blackout, which    
   occurred 58 years and 5 days ago at 5:28 pm. I was on the 110tj St. /    
   Broadway northbound platform, so I didn't get to be evacuated along    
   the tracks.   
      
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