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Re: East Coast outage?

  • From: Vadim Antonov
  • Date: Fri Aug 15 23:10:12 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