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Re: East Coast outage?
From: alex () yuriev com
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:58:02 -0400 (EDT)
At 08:13 PM 8/14/2003, David Lesher wrote:Then run parts at 105-110% and it gets really hard.The power industry designs a grid that runs so close to capacity that if^W when something big fails, the whole grid shuts down in a cascade. They know it:
Rubbish again. Welcome to the wonderful world of physics. Ask your favourite physics professor what does E1 = E2 in context of yesterdays events. Amount of energy generated must be balanced with the amount of energy used at any time. Otherwise Bad Things (tm) will happen. The shutown of the grid is a very good thing compared to what it would have been had it not shutdown. Alex
Current thread:
- Re: East Coast outage?, (continued)
- 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)
- Re: East Coast outage? Chris Adams (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 16)