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A comfy, nice, slowly creeping death of a grid might be preferrable to some. Problem is, when the grid fails it's not like you can throttle down the load. Too
by lstodd 7y ago
A comfy, nice, slowly creeping death of a grid might be preferrable to some.
Problem is, when the grid fails it's not like you can throttle down the load. Too late for that. It just goes out.
- ncmncm 7y agoCuriously, with all the grids taking wind and solar power, this has not happened. It's almost as if the operators of power grids have engineers on staff who have figured out how to keep them up, and do.
- lstodd 7y agoYeah, well. Engineering keeps figuring out how to keep reliance on solar/wind low enough so as for the blackouts to not happen. It's engineering, you know. Keeping politics from breaking things. Keeps getting harder to do though.