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Meredith Angwin's avatar

Excellent piece. An unreliable grid is a disaster waiting to happen, and it won't take much to make it happen. People need to know this.

I appreciate your first-hand story, and your broad-ranging research. A great combination.

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Stephen Heins's avatar

Excellent piece with extra credibility from your experience. We may have to modify your “The Electricity of Everything” to include

the equally important broadband/Cloud.

How about “The Internet and Electricity of Everything”?

I look forward to your next novel.

Steve

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Jean Philippe Hagry's avatar

Great experience. It would look like fantasy if it did not happen. To bounce on the paper, a few blackouts occurred nationwide in the mid-2000s in Europe due to to interconnections failure. I remember one for Italy caused by a line breakdown with Italy.

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Jean Philippe Hagry's avatar

I meant Switzerland.

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