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Britain has built entire power plants to ensure that they will be able to make tea. During popular TV events, commercial breaks will cause large numbers of people to simultaneously fire up their 3000 watt electric kettles. The strain this puts on the electrical grid is such that power station like Dinorwig (the fastest responding pumped storage reservoir in the world capable of producing 1320 MW of power within 12 seconds), pictured above, are necessary to keep the grid operating properly when national power demand increases by 1,000–2,000 MW in the space of a couple minutes.
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