Re: California PUC orders outage notification

[Brian Russo <brusso () phys hawaii edu>]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:00:32AM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> > From: Bora Akyol [mailto:akyol () akyol org]
> >
> > I don't understand why they don't go to planned blackouts instead of 
> > unplanned blackouts. This may actually drive the demand down 
> > and price 
> > with it. Plus maybe the population would decline with people 
> > migrating 
> > to South Dakota and all (for those of you that are not living 
> > in the SF 
> > Bay Area, S.D. has been advertising extensively on the radio 
> > as a good 
> > place to do business with ample energy).
>
> The argument against such planned blackouts are, Crypts, Bloods, F-troop, et
> al. (gangs/looters, for those whom aren't familiar) IOW, physical security.
> Numerous blackouts have proven that social predators take advantage of
> situations where no one can see them, the power is out, and the police are
> otherwise occupied.

conversely, it gives everyone
(homeowners, police, private security, noc monkies, et al)
a chance to plan accordingly.

OTOH, if you go with unplanned blackouts..
its not that difficult for organized thieves to use diffused
lookouts communicating via radio/cell/pcs/sms with their buddies
who just drive in a few pickups/vans and scoop away the stuff
when the lights go out..

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Brian Russo      <brusso () phys hawaii edu>
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