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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT mac.com>]

because its all between companies and stuff...it just CANT work that 
well!

theoretically, they should pick pu the slack, but when you lose enough 
generating power that theres more slack than can be picked up, i think 
thats where the problem is. ergo, i think thet they'll find that this 
started at a large switching station or something somewhere that had 
the effect of knocking out several plants at once when it went down

but thats just my uneducated guess and my $0.02.

ian


On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 22:23, machett AT ibiblio.org wrote:

> ...I'm just a little bewildered.  After the last major outage in NY, 
> wasn't the guvment supposed to work on a solution to the cascading 
> power failure problem of the grid?  I mean, the quote on CNN was that 
> 21 plants went down in 3 minutes.  Shouldn't the system allow other 
> plants on a grid to pick up the slack for one going down?  Seems 
> obvious to me, so I don't get why it doesn't work that way...?
>
> --Alan
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