The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid | Practical Engineering [22:07]
The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid | Practical Engineering [22:07]
What the heck is power factor? đGet Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/Practical-Engineering đ˘Watch the next season of Jet Lag: https://nebula.tv/jetlag?ref=practical-engineering Geomagnetic storms arenât the only thing that can make the grid behave in f...
I really enjoyed this video. It went into a few things I was fuzzy about despite having to ELI5 power factor to corpo suits on a semi-regular basis for about a decade.
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Since you have the power of ELI5 maybe you can explain the difference between resistance and impedance. I've always been fuzzy on that.
I do appreciate hulk Hogan has appropriate PPE to operate an oscilloscope. Good attention to detail
I'm not the right person to ask for that kind of differentiation... it's been a long time since I've had to do much of anything with component-level circuitry, and it's use it or lose it as they say.
My experience is mostly at the data center level. And I got real tired of having to explain to uninformed C-suite micromanagers and their sycophants why it's a Bad Idea to run the industrial AC off of the UPS, for instance. Or they're nitpicking because a UPS is 40kVA and saying 96% capacity while "only" supplying 37kW and completely ignoring the fact that we REALLY should not be running it that close to max, as stated many times, instead choosing to "investigate" why the math doesn't add up (hint: it's because the power factor was less than 1).
(And if my math doesn't add up, I'm blaming it on exhaustion and being out of practice. Roast as needed.)