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Re: East Coast outage?


From: Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:02:40 -0700 (PDT)



On 15 Aug 2003, Scott A Crosby wrote:

I also think that its hard to appreciate the stability differences
between shipping power a few hundred feet and shipping power 1000
miles. It looks like that long-distance shipping is the root cause of
the half-dozen major outages over the past 30 years.

Yep. That's why DC power transmission is the way to go. No potentially
harmful low-frequency EM emissions, too.

--vadim


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