Despite Hysteria, The Electric Grid Is Not That Easy To Crash

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 12:03 in Mathematics & Economics

In the wake of blackouts across Italy in 2003 and that same year in the US northeast, two recent studies caused a Congress that has usually been preoccupied with important things like a law that will limit TV commercial volume to berate the energy industry because a military analyst worried that an attack on a small, unimportant part of the U.S. power grid might, like dominoes, bring the whole grid down. read more

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