There’s a reservoir in Wales whose purpose is to run water through turbines when electrical demand spikes. It usually sees action during breaks in high-profile football matches, when a significant proportion of the country put their kettles on to make tea. Surely they’d be topping it up before the eclipse.
It didn’t used to be just big stuff like football. Because broadcast TV here was both popular and only a handful of channels, it used to be something that happened during every episode of EastEnders or Coronation Street.
There’s a reservoir in Wales whose purpose is to run water through turbines when electrical demand spikes. It usually sees action during breaks in high-profile football matches, when a significant proportion of the country put their kettles on to make tea. Surely they’d be topping it up before the eclipse.
Do you have a source for this? Because that’s amazing.
This is known as TV pickup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
Glorious.
It didn’t used to be just big stuff like football. Because broadcast TV here was both popular and only a handful of channels, it used to be something that happened during every episode of EastEnders or Coronation Street.