bandanagirl95

bandanagirl95 t1_jdo1dan wrote

Also not completely sitting flat because as you turn, you want to maintain certain tire contact, and therefore need to compensate for that. There's also plenty of things with suspension abs even driving style that impact this, which is why it's important to get them aligned more than just the once. Each alignment is an approximation of what it will need to be, but those factors will almost certainly change over time

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bandanagirl95 t1_itondd6 wrote

It sort of depends on the definition of "abandoned their post". If they shut it down on the way out, about 15 seconds if coal is involved.

If they don't shut it down on the way out, you'll run in to issues as soon as the load no longer roughly matches what is generated, either way. This is because the entire system is designed under the assumption that these will roughly match. If they don't, generators and other equipment can end up destroying themselves. This imbalance will almost certainly happen within about 12 hours. Everything would start catastrophically failing sort of like as happened with the Texas grid a year or so ago (though they got that under control before it was an enormous issue)

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