If a powerline fails the connected power plant produces to much electricity? so it has to shut down, Other powerplants must compensate by generating more electricity, but the powerlines connected to those are over stimulated and heat up, to prevent dammage the cablas shut them self down, Now other power plant need to compensate that....
It's like a domino <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />
Morbo, I hope that you are kidding. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" />
He's right.
It's how things are organised all over the world.
And it's logical. One breaks down, the other "jump in" to ensure there's no shortage. + One breaks down, the ones connected shut themselves down when they get "overheated".
Only problen in the USA. They haven't been taking care of the net. It's in "private" hands. Those companies only cared about gaining $$$, not about the consumer and safety.
Like I said before on this forum, the electricity net in the USA is 50 years old. And no one ever cared to look into the problem before this happened.
Why do you think Bush started talking about updating and modernising the electricity net? That in itself should tell you enough.
Politicians always start yelling about something like that when it's years to late and when they can gain something from saying "hey, look, we're handling this enormous problem, aren't we great?"
