> It is physics, you can't just close the pipe and electricity stops flowing. Deal with this. This is so wrong I can't resist ... I turn off the electricity pi

> It is physics, you can't just close the pipe and electricity stops flowing. Deal with this. This is so wrong I can't resist ... I turn off the electricity pipe multiple times a day with a light switch, and as far as I can tell in my 6 decades of existence the electricity has stopped flowing every time with no ill effects. What are are perhaps trying to say is you can't just shut of some sorts of power generation - like coal and nuclear. But as another poster pointed out, that's a limitation of those technologies. Wind, solar, gas and even diesel generators can be turned of near instantaneously.