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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:42 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 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 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Linux-users mailing list >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> >> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >> > >_______________________________________________ >Linux-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> >http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
