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Re:U.K. National Grid status by wglb on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @01:20PM (#8103435)
No, electrically generators and motors are the same circuitry. If you have two generators hooked to the same output line, and one gains a few degrees of phase angle on the other, the one lagging draws power from the leader in proportion to the phase angle difference.
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Re:U.K. National Grid status by abritishguy on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @01:27PM (#8103478)
Yes but with a bit of electronics you can stop this from happening. Source: Institute of Physics.
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Re:U.K. National Grid status by wglb on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @03:55PM (#8104587)
Curious what electronics will prevent a flow of AC electricity.
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Re:U.K. National Grid status by abritishguy on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @05:02PM (#8105007)
This is what is used in the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_%28alternating_...
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