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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".

[color:"yellow"] So this is the mentality that brings a whole continent into darkness, how interesting! [/color]

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.

[color:"yellow"] What you say here is that the responsible people sitting on chairs are not worthy of their positions, so how does that differ from what I said? [/color]

Like I said before on this forum, the electricity net in the USA is 50 years old.

[color:"yellow"] Therefore the design never considered the growth outbreak of population and machines!
Yet it did hold up and tolerate, so how can you blame that? [/color]

And no one ever cared to look into the problem before this happened.

[color:"yellow"] Three times! Count up. Why should any one care when it count four or five? [/color]

Why do you think Bush started talking about updating and modernising the electricity net?

[color:"yellow"] Because Mobarak did the same thing two months before and asked Bush for technical and financial assistance, that is how that brainless got the idea. [/color]

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?"

[color:"yellow"] No, because they failed to foresee it and neglected it until disaster kicked in; but hey, Bush is no electrician he is only a dumb puppet and I would not really blame him in person. It is the whole country elected class of decision makers, who decide to destroy others rather than building themselves.

Are you aware that connecting several generators of Tesla’s alternating current demands synchronisation?
Electronic Synchronisers were not available 50 years ago. Therefore telling people that the whole system is 50 years old is yet another lie. Yes some cables may be that old and more, but the control rooms and the nuclear generators are not 50 years old and they do not need renewal and tax collecting. What a dumb ruse!

This network design might have been an open network where all generators are synchronised and provide a unified source from which all is distributed. This concept is really good for mains stability when loads vary and fluctuate. The only problem with this concept is exactly what could be called a disastrous shutdown.

Again I say that the computerised algorithms that operate the isolation relays were badly programmed to protect the system against such a disaster.
How can any system provide enough power to a huge cable short-circuited to ground?
The only logical answer is to isolate it, not to bring down the network of the whole nation.

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