East Coast outage?

Sat Aug 16 03:02:40 UTC 2003

On 15 Aug 2003, Scott A Crosby wrote:

> I also think that its hard to appreciate the stability differences
> between shipping power a few hundred feet and shipping power 1000
> miles. It looks like that long-distance shipping is the root cause of
> the half-dozen major outages over the past 30 years.

Yep. That's why DC power transmission is the way to go. No potentially
harmful low-frequency EM emissions, too.

--vadim