There’s a third judge as well who has ruled on the “invasion” question. Hellerstein in SD New York, Rodriguez in SD Texas, and Sweeney in Colorado. They have all come to the rather obvious conclusion that the United States is not being invaded by a foreign nation or government.
TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages,
Wait so does this mean that someone in the admin who was involved in setting this up at least thought about complying with archive laws?
The problem of getting power to startup equipment is one thing, but there’s another cool problem that this article covers but I don’t think explained very well.
A power grid is a massive distributed physical system. The energy input must exactly match the energy output at all times.
But what happens when the energy ins and outs are not balanced? The answer is that a balance is found somehow. Physics demands it.
If there is excess power on the grid and no electrical load, that power comes back to the generator (s). The turbines or whatever driving the generators produce more torque than the retarding torque from the generator coils, so they speed up. The AC grid frequency is mostly maintained by the rotating generator speed (3000 rpm for 50 Hz), so that goes up too.
Conversely, if there is excess load and not enough power, electrical drag from the generator coils exceeds the torque from the turbine (or whatever), and the generator slows down. The operator has to burn more fuel, or pull out control rods, or open more water gates, to get the speed back up.
So what is the black start challenge here? You have to go from 0 W to whatever GW the grid normally runs at. Normally when a generator plant is switched onto the grid, that gen represents a small fraction of the total grid power, so the disturbance to the grid is small. But coming back from a black start that’s not true. Going from 1 plant online to 2: you could be doubling the power level. This means you have to switch on loads (possibly many km away) at the exact same time you switch in the power. If the disturbance is too much, various equipment will trip off the grid as the AC frequency careens out of control.
“Because they were prevented from restocking, they are now out of food, but this condition need not continue if they are restocked.”. Is that good enough?
And even if the kids did say this thing, it would in no way prejudice his absolute right to remain in the country. Even if he did cross the border illegally without presenting at a port of entry, he would still have the right to enter and remain.
He already has a habeas petition filed, and a judge (actually the same judge handling Ozturk*) has ordered him not to be removed from Vermont.
*Not much of a coincidence. Vermont has two federal district judges in the entire state.
In NASA’s lessons learned database, there’s one where the probe made out all the way to its destination, but the pictures came back all black. Because they forgot to take off the lens cap.