Renewableenergystocks.com -- New Article Published By J. Peter Lynch on The Blackout of 2003

Point Roberts, WA - ECON Corporate Services (ECON) http://www.Investorideas.com and http://www.renewableenergystocks.com are pleased to feature a recent article by Solar Energy Expert, J. Peter Lynch on the recent power blackout in August

September 05, 2003

Renewableenergystocks.com -- New Article Published
By J. Peter Lynch
on The Blackout of 2003

Point Roberts, WA - ECON Corporate Services (ECON) http://www.Investorideas.com and http://www.renewableenergystocks.com are pleased to feature a recent article by Solar Energy Expert, J. Peter Lynch on the recent power blackout in August.

Excerpt:
The Blackout of 2003 - Part One
September 2003
J.Peter Lynch - Featured Guest Writer http://www.renewableenergystocks.com

On August 14th 2003 50 million Americans were cast into the dark, as a result of the largest blackout in American history. What happened, why did it happen and what can be done short term and long term to help prevent more blackouts?

What Caused the Blackout?

As of this date no one knows for sure what initiated the sequence of events that cascaded into the blackout of 2003. Whatever single event or sequence of events that triggered the system failure it all comes down to:

A severely overloaded electrical grid that is being constantly asked to do things and handle loads that it was never designed for.

The grid was designed over 50 years ago to service a highly centralized, analog, pre-computer society and was never designed to handle the new demands of our increasingly decentralized, digital society.

An easy way to visualize the problem is to picture a large hub with 6 spokes coming out from the center. This is the current centralized" power generation model, which supplies the majority of power to the industrialized world. The hub is a large power plant and the spokes are transmission lines carrying power from the plant. All of the spokes are running very close to full capacity and all of a sudden, one of the spokes has a technical problem. The system tries to immediately switch the electrical load to the other 5 spokes. However, since they are all running so close to full capacity they cannot handle the surge in power and the whole system goes down. Once the system is down, it can take hours or even days to gradually bring the system back to full operating status.

However, once it is back in operation, it is still running dangerously close to full capacity and the possibility of more blackouts remains possible. In fact, we are just as vulnerable now as we were on June 14th to another technical accident, human error or worst, a terrorist attack.
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