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Not just politics, security as well. One bad actor could wipe out the power grid for most of the world's superpowers.
by treehau5 10y ago
Not just politics, security as well. One bad actor could wipe out the power grid for most of the world's superpowers.
- binalpatel 10y agoHow would that hypothetical work out? I know that the grids - as they stand right now - must balance generation and consumption. Would a large outage (or large spike) in any given part of the interconnected grids be able to take out all of it?
- msl 10y agoThe Wikipedia article on Cascading failure [0] lists a few examples of this kind of a large scale grid failure. You start by taking one (or some) power plants down, thus overloading others trying to reblance the system, and possibly failing too. Such a chain reaction can, over multiple generations, take a great many power plants down. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_failure