From: Brendan Coffey (bmc@section9.net)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 17:13:32 MDT
It's a good reason all you experienced power and control systems engineers
are on this list to tell us how simple running a national power grid
for 300 million people is.
-bmc
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:15:56AM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 23:21, Spike wrote:
>
> > If power were to be sold at the real-time price
> > it costs to make it, then the proletariat would
> > adjust its collective behavior, charging batteries
> > when power is cheap, and turning off the air
> > conditioners when power is expensive.
> >
>
>
> I see no reason that we need to be subject to such fluctuation in available
> power for something so simple as air-conditioning. I certainly see no good
> technical reason we should have to stop our activities periodically for
> brown-outs much less black-outs. Such lack of dependable power is a
> serious fault in our infrastructure and must be remedied.
>
> - samantha
>
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