[60797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Sat Aug 16 04:12:24 2003
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 10:11:37 +0200
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: <ekgermann@CCTEC.COM>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBJJPLIGJGLBKILFIHIEPHLNAA.ekgermann@cctec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On zaterdag, aug 16, 2003, at 05:38 Europe/Amsterdam, Eric Germann
wrote:
> And the nukes tripping off was probably more an artifact
> of frequency instability on the grid than a problem with the nukes
> themselves.
Maybe a stupid question...
But what if the huge distribution systems used DC and the whole thing
was only converted to AC close to the users in small installations?
This would get rid of the frequency problems.
