Interfering buses

The staff in the library are convinced that some passing buses or heavy lorries cause the computer system to have temporary conniptions; the boffins in the IT department pooh-pooh this idea.

So now the report in The Times of 2 March, explaining how the new Francis Crick biomedical research institute I the centre of London has had to be specially shielded from electromagnetic fields which can play havoc with equipment, sources of such interference include passing buses, provides a source of great satisfaction.

Links
Electromagnetic Interference Sources and Their Most Significant Effects
Study to Predict the Electromagnetic Interference for a typical house in 2010
Francis Crick Institute
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