[60793] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Fri Aug 15 23:06:11 2003
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:02:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: Scott A Crosby <scrosby@cs.rice.edu>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <oydr83m2w1m.fsf@bert.cs.rice.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 15 Aug 2003, Scott A Crosby wrote:
> I also think that its hard to appreciate the stability differences
> between shipping power a few hundred feet and shipping power 1000
> miles. It looks like that long-distance shipping is the root cause of
> the half-dozen major outages over the past 30 years.
Yep. That's why DC power transmission is the way to go. No potentially
harmful low-frequency EM emissions, too.
--vadim
