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FUNFACT 🇯🇵#JAPAN
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Japan has not only very high prices for electricity it also messed up its Grid system its the only country wich has two totally diffrent power Grid systems.The European 50HZ Sytem anf the US american 60 HZ System. To be fair this happened by Accident.

Initially it was an accident of history that evolved into a large installed base of 50 and 60 Hz power systems that are now too costly to change. In 1895, Germany's AEG sold a 50 Hz generator to the power company in Tokyo,

setting the Eastern half of Japan on the course towards a 50 Hz system. In 1896, An American company (that eventually became GE) sold a 60 Hz generator to the power company in Osaka, setting the Western half of Japan on a course towards a 60 Hz system.

The equipment used to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity is large, complex, and expensive, and its not easily replaced on a whim. Each power network evolved independently in geographically-separated areas, and there was, at least initially,

little motivation to standardize to a single power frequency standard across the entire country. Over the years, the installed base of equipment in each system grew to be so large that any consideration of converting to a single 50 or 60 Hz country-wide standard simply

became cost-prohibitive. The tecnological devolpment, the earthquake of 2011 and the following subsequent Fukashima nuclear power plant disaster highlighted the disadvantages of having two power frequency standards.

When a major portion of northeastern Japan's 50 Hz power generation capability was ruined or shut down by the earthquake and Tsunami, it could not be supplemented by power from the mostly undamaged 60 Hz grid from the southern half of the country.

And the modernisation amd development of technology can cause extra money as the mashine either can workeith 50Hz or 60Hz without breaking them.

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