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A |     Individual European nations achieving gas security by stocking up their underground storage facility reserves to 80 percent or more of their capacity won’t stop an energy crisis across the region unless the bloc collectively reaches this figure, Dutch Energy Minister Rob Jetten has warned.,“It’s great if individual member states are able to fill their gas storages before November 1, but if other countries are not able to reach 80 percent – and especially big countries like Germany – then you have to be aware that this will be a domino effect for the whole of Europe,” Jetten told Politico on the sidelines of the EU’s Energy Council meeting on Monday.,Jetten promised that Amsterdam would show “solidarity” with its neighbors if Russia-sourced gas supplies were cut off, but indicated that it would only consider increasing production at the Groningen – Europe’s largest gas field, if all other measures proved insufficient.,“Only in the situation with all countries in the northwestern Europe in phase three [of their emergency plans], and having taken all the other measures you can take to prevent gas shortages, then we can consider production,” the minister said.,The decades-long extraction of gas from the massive Groningen field has been complicated by earthquakes scaring local residents and damaging property, with Amsterdam previously promising to shut down the field in the coming years. The self-inflicted energy price hike facing Europe has led to speculation that the field’s operation could be extended. However, Jetten insisted that under current plans, the field would be shut down by next year or in 2024 at the latest.,For now though, instead of expanding drilling in Groningen, Amsterdam has resorted to burning more coal, and is preparing to announce plans to build a pair of nuclear power plants. Additionally, Amsterdam and Berlin have reached a cooperation pact to jointly search for gas in the North Sea, with hopes that production of any reserves that are tapped can begin in 2024.,Jetten admitted that “quitting” the Groningen field will mean “a huge drop in national gas production from the Netherlands. Everything we’re doing in the North Sea with the smaller fields, it’s not comparable with what we did in Groningen. So net gas production in the Netherlands will go down at a very high pace,” he said.,European countries are scrambling to juggle the next-to-impossible task of shoring up their underground gas storage reserves while dramatically scaling down Russian energy deliveries. Last month, Germany’s Julich Research Centre calculated that without Russian gas, filling up the storage tanks and continuing to operate industry as normal in normal economic conditions may be mathematically impossible to accomplish.,EU Can’t Fill Winter Gas Reserves, Simultaneously Operate Industry Without Russian Supplies: Report1 May, 13:38 GMT,Earlier this month, energy specialists told Bloomberg that instead of filling up reserves in the summer months, EU countries are actually chipping away at their reserves. Gas Infrastructure Europe, a Brussels-based organization representing infrastructure operators across the bloc, keeps up to date tabs on European countries’ storage facilities’ status. According to GIE figures, storage facilities are just 56.97 full at present, with the United Kingdom and Poland boasting the highest ratings, of 95 and 97 percent, respectively, while the tanks of Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary and Sweden at sitting at between 27-37 percent of capacity.,Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed regret that Moscow’s European Union partners had decided to cut down on the purchase of Russian energy “under pressure from their American overlords,” and characterized the move as a form of economic “suicide.”,“One gets the impression that our Western colleagues, politicians and economists have simply forgotten the foundations of the elementary laws of economics, or, to their detriment, prefer to deliberately ignore them,” Putin said. Putin predicted that higher energy prices will severely undermine the European Union’s economic competitiveness vis-à-vis other regions of the world.,Russia’s energy exports have yet to show signs of being affected by the EU and US energy ban, with state energy companies reporting record profits as prices climb and supplies are shifted to other markets.,European Firms Double Shipments of Russian Oil In Spite of Sanctions–Report8 June, 03:41 GMT。    The 1989 song "Rhythm Nation" by Janet Jackson has a funky/new jack swing-ish beat that encourages dancing, but it also has a special frequency that can cause some laptops, fortunately from the bygone era of Windows XP, to crash, Microsoft developer Raymond Chen said.,Chen, the chief software engineer at Microsoft, reported the problem on his blog The Old New Thing this week. He claimed that the song's frequency coincided with the laptop hard drive's resonant frequency, which is an object's inherent frequency.,The way a glass breaks when exposed to certain noises is similar to how a laptop crashes, Chen asserted, as the sound from the source sends an unseen vibration through the air and onto the glass.,"A colleague of mine shared a story from Windows XP product support. A major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the music video for Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' would crash certain models of laptops," Chen wrote. "I would not have wanted to be in the laboratory that they must have set up to investigate this problem. Not an artistic judgment.",According to Chen, the manufacturer discovered that Jackson's song also crashed laptops built by its rivals.,"Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop wasn't playing the video," he said. "It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used.",Then, manufacturers included a "custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback," and this fixed the problem. Chen added that they likely attached a digital version of a "Do Not Remove" sticker on that audio filter.,However, he expressed some concern that, after adding the workaround many years ago, nobody would remember its purpose.,"Hopefully, their laptops are not still carrying this audio filter to protect against damage to a model of hard drive they are no longer using," Chen concluded.,Chen did not say what kind of sounds caused such a resonance. But that apparently does not matter now, given the transition of laptops and desktop computers to SSDs.,In addition, Chen attached to the post an old educational video from the data center, which demonstrates the effect of sound wave vibrations, namely human screams, on the operation of hard drives in a rack.,By and large, resonance is a physical phenomenon in which the frequency of one object's sound waves and those of another object coincide. This may result in a sharp rise in amplitude. This is why some bridges have previously collapsed.。

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