Mark- To say nothing of how little it would take for terrorists to take out power across wide segments of the US. What do the power people not understand about ARPANET (the strategy of communications that the Internet is loosely based on)? -DonRB
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:32:14 -0700> Subject: [ENTS] Re: FYI: E-M:/ Wind > farm in old growth next to Nordhouse?> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > [email protected]> > > I've been lurking here for a while and saying > nothing, as I'm young,> inexperienced, and can contribute little...but this > is something I CAN> say something interesting about. I have a number of > relatives who work> in the power industry, and they all complain that the > whole eastern> power grid (the U.S. & Canada on this side of the Rockies) is > very> vulnerable to power outages. Because of these huge, centralized, and> > widely distributed power plants, and the very few transmission lines> having > to span vast distances, the loss of just a few of the big lines> could bring > the whole system crashing down. Massive centralized power> has the whole grid > engaged in a perilous tightrope act. Even aside> from the damage to > ecosystems, the whole system is doubleplusungood.> > My $0.02,> --mark> > > _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
