Re: East Coast outage?

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>]

On zaterdag, aug 16, 2003, at 05:38 Europe/Amsterdam, Eric Germann 
wrote:

> And the nukes tripping off was probably more an artifact
> of frequency instability on the grid than a problem with the nukes
> themselves.

Maybe a stupid question...

But what if the huge distribution systems used DC and the whole thing 
was only converted to AC close to the users in small installations? 
This would get rid of the frequency problems.