northeast power outage

[ronnie gauthier]

I'm glad I live where I do. All power is supplied by dams and except for storms
or natural disasters we dont lose power. All our overage goes to NSP which is
the ND,MN grid.
I talksed to my sister who is employed by a firm in Milwaukee that monitors
transmission/usage. She says that DE went down first. She has no idea why, just
that Detroit was the first to go black.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:18:22 -0500 - "Jack Berger" <JBerger at midwestiso.org>
wrote the following
Re: RE: northeast power outage

>Depending on where you are, the generation capacity may be adequate (excluding
>CA), transmission capacity is the limiting factor in many regions. And with
>dereg allowing or encouraging people to buy power anywhere and ship it across
>the country, some marginal lines are further taxed.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at hammershome.com]
>> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:42 AM
>> To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
>> Subject: Re: northeast power outage
>> 
>> 
>> Well, what does the average person want to know about? The 
>> power grid or
>> lifestyles of the rich and famous or American idol?  We get 
>> what we deserve.
>> Engineers are SO boring. 
>> 
>> And, the environmentalists will fight attempts to increase power
>> generation, except by building wind farms (aka 
>> environmentally destructive
>> tax ripoffs), which, as I understand it, make the grid more unstable,
>> not less.
>> 
>> So, as we decline as a great power and evolve into a third 
>> world country
>> (California is just the beginning, and things will pick up speed),
>> occasional power outages will be a minor inconvenience.
>> 
>> Joel
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:55:39AM -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
>> > Jack Berger wrote:
>> > > Maybe this is the wake up call that we need to upgrade 
>> the existing
>> > > system to (at least) current demand.
>> > 
>> > All true. And it's not as if this is the first time such a 
>> thing has 
>> > happened.
>> > 
>> > The proper name for it is: "Dancing on the edge of the cliff".
>> > 
>> > Michael
>> > 
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