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Re: Lucas Electrical Emergency Team

To: "Telewest (PH)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Lucas Electrical Emergency Team
From: "James H. Nazarian, Ph.D." <microdoc@zoominternet.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:02:59 -0400
"Telewest (PH)" wrote:

> Is there a grid?  How can one power station failure black out cities as far
> apart as New York, Detroit, Toronto and Ottowa as has been reported in the
> UK?  It's deja vu all over again.  James Burke produced a television series
> many years ago called Connections built around a similar power outage in
> 1968 where a single component at the Niagara Falls power station blacked out
> power to 30 million people over 80,000 square miles, with a similar event in
> 1977 I understand.

The answer, Paul is some people, places, things, countries and governments never
learn.

Jim
microdoc@zoominternet.net
1960 MGA 1600 Very Red
1974 MGB-GT Damask (Very Burgundy) Red ( on the road again
        after a 10 year layover in divorce court)

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