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Supposedly... The Niagara power grid overloaded and shut down. Power stations all along the grid tried to pick up the slack and overloaded and began shutting down.It will be interesting to find out the cause.
Originally posted by: OhioDude
Supposedly... The Niagara power grid overloaded and shut down. Power stations all along the grid tried to pick up the slack and overloaded and began shutting down.It will be interesting to find out the cause.
They say that the system worked exactly as it was supposed to...
"We have no indication that there is any terrorism involved," said Bryan Lee, a spokesman for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington.
The blackout was caused by a failure at a Manhattan power plant that destabilized the power grid as far as Canada, Lee said.
Originally posted by: networkman
Well, if nothing else, let's hope this is a big WAKE UP CALL to the folks in a position to do something about our energy dependence and power grid systems.
Also, consider this: So far they're indicating that this isn't the result of any terrorist act, but I'll bet there are terrorists out there getting ideas based on this unfortunate incident. :disgust: To realize that a single plant being taken out can have such a widespread effect - makes power plants a perfect target. Let's just remain vigilant and hope no one is able to pull it off.
Originally posted by: networkman
I know this going to be a bit off-topic from the thread here and normally I wouldn't do it, but ericlp's post got me wondering.. why is it the U.S. always seems to have tens or hundreds of millions of dollars that it can funnel to other countries during various crises or in some kind of aid package, when there's way more than enough projects and people to be taking care of here at home?!?
It's not a Bush thing or a Clinton thing or any other president for that matter.. it's been going on for decades.
Okay, that's far enough off topic for me - apologies to the Mods.