[60702] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Aug 14 23:51:04 2003
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:13:53 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.10.0.20030814161748.0427dbc8@127.0.0.1> from "JC Dill" at Aug 14, 2003 05:18:36 PM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
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>
> Am I the only one who is surprised that here we are now - over 7 years
> later - and the electric grid industry still hasn't found/implemented a
> design fix for this problem?
Guess what... Real Time is Hard. Real Time when dealing with
amounts of energy sufficient to move mountains, with dv/dt in
milliseconds, is even harder.
Spread it out over a grid that measures fractions of a wavelength,
it gets harder still. Then run parts at 105-110% and it gets
really hard.
Now, play Prisoner's Dilemma with it.... and watch the sparks.
I'm no power engineer but I do not envy them. Can YOU build an
equal size TCP/IP network with the added requirement that you
never drop any more than say one or 2 bits/hour? And if you do,
you cold boot it all again?
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