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Re: East Coast outage?
From: David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:13:53 -0400 (EDT)
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
Am I the only one who is surprised that here we are now - over 7 years later - and the electric grid industry still hasn't found/implemented a design fix for this problem?
Guess what... Real Time is Hard. Real Time when dealing with amounts of energy sufficient to move mountains, with dv/dt in milliseconds, is even harder. Spread it out over a grid that measures fractions of a wavelength, it gets harder still. Then run parts at 105-110% and it gets really hard. Now, play Prisoner's Dilemma with it.... and watch the sparks. I'm no power engineer but I do not envy them. Can YOU build an equal size TCP/IP network with the added requirement that you never drop any more than say one or 2 bits/hour? And if you do, you cold boot it all again? -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz () nrk com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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- Re: East Coast outage?, (continued)
- Re: East Coast outage? Dominic J. Eidson (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Larry Snyder (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Lloyd Taylor (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Lloyd Taylor (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Shawn Morris (Aug 14)
- RE: East Coast outage? Terry Baranski (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Scott Bradner (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? K. Scott Bethke (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? John Kinsella (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? JC Dill (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? David Lesher (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Joe Abley (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? JC Dill (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? alex (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? alex (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? David Lesher (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Scott A Crosby (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Vadim Antonov (Aug 15)
- RE: East Coast outage? Eric Germann (Aug 15)