I was intending to comment on all of these commentaries, but some writing has come my way that has taken more time than I thought … in any case, for your convenience and my own, a compendium of commentaries: Robert Kuttner from the New York Times Saturday: no great surprise, he blames deregulation for the …
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I must take this opportunity to thank those of you who directed traffic this way: Tyler Cowen, Steve Verdon, and Megan McArdle aka Jane Galt all posted links to the Knowledge Problem, as well as offering their own cogent and insightful commentaries. Tyler also mentioned the Watts paper on cascading failures, and has endeared himself …
For you techies out there, here’s a paper by Duncan Watts on cascading failures from the Santa Fe Institute [ironically, I was reading this paper for my own general edification early last week!]. And a knowledgeable reader, Eric Krieg, sends this link to a paper on high-phase power. Eric says Basically, you can pump more …
Tech Central Station has a couple of electricity articles this morning: one by Vaclav Smil on the fragmented nature of our grid and the consequences of that fragmentation, and one by me on how deregulation is not to blame and how retail demand response can make the grid more reliable.
Some articles on the possible causes and the fallout from the blackout: Overloaded power lines in northern Ohio may be to blame, although the utility that owns and operates the lines in question thinks that their imbalances were a symptom of a larger problem: Baird said FirstEnergy is evaluating information that shows there were “unusual …
Morning: the cat sticks her wet little nose into your eye socket to wake you up. Husband makes tea, french toast and turkey bacon while you work on some electricity blackout writing. Weather: high of 78F, low humidity, not even a wispy cloud in the sky. 11:30-2:30: kayak in the 3-4 foot waves on Lake …
I’ll have more analysis and commentary on electricity policy tomorrow, after I’ve rested and digested the weekend’s news. Please come back then (or set your aggregator to my RSS feed)!
This post is the first from my brandy-new Macintosh Powerbook G4 12″ laptop. It’s utterly zippy — stylish, small, screamin’ fast, plays my Pride & Prejudice DVD and all of my tunes from my IPod beautifully. And I am grateful to my husband, whose technical virtuosity makes it possible for me to live in a …
We have updated Reason’s electricity pages to include a Reason blackout resource center. Transmission-related information will be provided here, updated regularly. One very valuable resource available on our site is Ken Silverstein’s column on the blackout. Ken is a very incisive observer of electricity policy, and he correctly points out that The wires business must …
A quick break … this commentary on electricity grid vulnerability from November 2001 is still, or even more, relevant today, even though my focus in this commentary was terrorism. A teaser: While the Sept. 11 attacks disrupted communications and business operations on a massive scale, many businesses recovered their data quickly, and telecommunications companies restored …
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