Re: Government "experiments" with power grid - You are going to be an Alpha tester.

[Frank Provasek <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an electrical engineering degree, and this changes involve LESS
variance

of the power frequency. Years ago, when one power plant supplied one
town,

and electric clocks had mechanical motors, it made sense  to speed up
the

power grid frequency to make the clocks run fast for a day or two to
catch up to

the duration of the power outage.  But even that caused problems -- if
you just

reset the clock when the power came back on, the power company's
efforts

made THOSE clocks wrong -- they would be FAST by the amount of the

correction.  These periods of non-standard power frequency make it
extremely

difficult to merge into a regional power grid operating at normal
frequency.
And anyway,  today's  clocks with digital displays use quartz movments
and most

analog clocks use a battery movement - both unaffected by power grid

frequency.  Computers and electronic devices haven't cared about the
input

frequency for decades...almost all are designed for international use
where

some areas have 50 cycle power and other 60 cycles.