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Re: East Coast outage?
From: Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:39:20 -0400
On Thursday, 14 August 2003, at 23:13PM, David Lesher wrote:
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?
Perhaps the lesson to learn is that very large networks don't always lead to very high stability. A much larger number of smaller, more autonomous generation and transmission facilities might have much more reasonable interconnection requirements, and hence less wide-ranging failure modes.
Seems to me, if more consumers were opportunistic generators (fuel cells, solar cells, wind turbines, whatever) the islands formed during interconnection failures would have far more accurately-matched supply and demand, and failures would stand a much better chance of having only local impact.
Joe (battery and GPRS powered, still)
Current thread:
- Re: East Coast outage?, (continued)
- 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)
- Re: East Coast outage? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 16)