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To: Arthur Tang who wrote (279)	5/23/2001 9:17:34 AM
From: Arthur Tang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 435

Foot note on electrical generation and brown out leading to black out. Brown out is created when aluminum wire size is too small for excessive demand. The voltage drop from 125 volt AC goes down to 105 volts and current surges to heat up the high tension aluminum wire. Eventually melting the wire and breaking the connection caused blackout. No electricity at all can then be supplied to the high demand areas until new wire can be installed. So, some electric power plants will lower their voltage to reduce current on the wire. They should have added more parallel wires and kept the voltage high to get more revenue to pay for more natural gas.. It is not a shortage of power generation. It is an improper sizing of wire supplying the area of high demand. More power plants will not help matters, but more even distribution studies(more parallel wires installed for high demand areas) by our federal government are needed. Recent news in India, Enron has to terminate expansion contract because India does not have needs for the third leg of electricity demand and usage expansion, planned many years ago.