How the world works
The grid's heartbeat, and the June evening it skipped
Britain's entire grid shares a single pulse of fifty beats a second. In June it slipped to 49.66, which sounds like nothing until you know that at 48.8 the system starts switching people off automatically.
How the world works is a daily explainer: one thing in the news, and the mechanism underneath it. Each piece is drafted by AI from public sources and checked by a person before it is published. Papers behind a paywall are named as sources but not linked.
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