Dim Bulb

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

I agree with Bob . I were married five minutes prior to the 1965 blackout 
in N y C. The press on that date was the same as now -Nothing has changed. 
!! -Why!!

The IEEE published papers which made recommendation NO ONE DID ANYTHING WITH !



> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:24:39 -0700
> From: "Robert M. McClure" <rmm () unidot com>
>
>
> At 04:59 PM 8/15/03 -0400, you wrote:
>
> > > Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:13:45 -0700
> > > From: Severo Ornstein <severo () poonhill com>
> > >
> > >
> > > This just in from Znet.
> > >
> > > S.
> > >
> > > POWER OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB IN WHITE HOUSE
> > >
> > > THE TALE OF THE BRITS WHO SWIPED 800 JOBS FROM NEW YORK, CARTED OFF $90
> > > MILLION, THEN TONIGHT, TURNED OFF OUR LIGHTS
> > >
> > > by Greg Palast
>
> This is a singularly unenlightening and actually erroneous screed from
> a journalist who clearly has an agenda.  His essential allegation that
> the blackout was caused by corporate raiders bent on gouging the
> ratepayers, and especially that it was all fomented by George Bush,
> father and son, is simply too far-fetched to be believable.  In fact,
> in is mostly just a rant.
>
> Now as to the actual event, I am surprised not in the grid collapse, but
> that it doesn't collapse more often.  Large power grids are ill understood
> and tend under the best of circumstances to be somewhat unstable.
> The closer to full capacity they come, the more likely it is that a small
> increase in load or a small decrease in supply leads to a collapse.
> It is not hard to see why this is the case.
>
> Grid collapse has been endemic since I was an undergraduate EE.
> Computers and better models clearly have made it possible to operate
> larger grids than there were back in those dark ages, but cannot cope
> with all the non-linearities that a big grid presents.  Components do
> fail, humans err, and, yes, even computers get the wrong answer
> sometimes.
>
> Sure there is a fix -- have plenty of surplus generating and transmission
> capacity.  Only one small problem left -- how to pay for it.  The politicians
> want to shield the consumer, don't want to pay themselves, and somehow
> cannot coerce stockholders into throwing their money into the pot.
> Anybody got any real answers out there?
>
> Bob McClure

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