Squirrels blamed for Kansas State power outage
The Manhattan campus was without electricity for more than three hours November 17.
The university says power was cut when two squirrels got into a Westar Energy transformer.
Electricity was restored around 4:30 p.m., allowing evening classes and activities to proceed.
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And the situation is, according to experts, more complicated than many have thought.
The costly 5G
5G technology can be 10 or more times faster than 4G and significantly more responsive to users' input, but the speed comes at a cost.
A 5G base station consumes "four times more electricity" than its 4G counterpart, said Ding Haiyu, head of wireless and terminals at the China Mobile Research Institute, during…
