We predicted this (cascading power failure): energy expert

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We predicted this (cascading power failure): energy expert

Edited on Thu Aug-14-03 07:48 PM by Wonk

We predicted this: energy expert
Last Updated Thu, 14 Aug 2003 19:41:23

BOULDER, COLORADO - Energy experts have been warning about large-scale blackouts in North America since the early eighties.

Bill Browning of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado says a report for the U.S. Pentagon in 1982 cautioned the American government about the fragility of the power grid system in North America.

"Everyone is pulling power and there's lots of big stations on the grid. All you need is one tenuous problem and it cascades throughout," Browning told CBC News Online.

Other experts agree.

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Fri Aug-15-03 06:19 AM
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1. We need efficiency standards and conservation, not more plants

Says William Rosehart of the University of Calgary :

"Because of the high temperature, the system is at capacity and it becomes susceptible. What's been missing is that in the last 10 years there's been no incentive to improve the capacity, so the ability to deal with problems is decreased."

This is the solution that big business wants. However, the public would be better off if we focused on efficiency standards and conservation so that we could eliminate the need to build more generating capacity. We could even decrease the total electricity used eventually.

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