East Coast outage?

Fri Aug 15 23:18:28 UTC 2003

> >> >Then run parts at 105-110% and it gets really hard.
> >> 
> >> The power industry designs a grid that runs so close to capacity that if^W 
> >> when something big fails, the whole grid shuts down in a cascade.  They 
> >> know it:
> >
> >Rubbish again. 
> >
> >Welcome to the wonderful world of physics. Ask your favourite physics
> >professor what does
> >
> >	E1 = E2 
> >
> >in context of yesterdays events.
> 
> That's not really answering the question, and it's also not
> entirely right.
> 

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> But you *can't* just simplify this to Ein = Eout.

No, it is spinning physics that does not work - physics *is* simple as long
as one does not skip the linkage between different things:

Econsumed = Econsumed_productive + Qreleased + Wreqired

Econsumed_productive is what you actually used
Qreleased is the energy released in a form of a increase/decrease heat
Wrequired is the work required to get Econsumed.

Alex