To: i-node who wrote (697195 ) 2/4/2013 6:54:59 PM From: tejek Respond to In January [2011], for example, millions of Americans watched Stanford's football team win the Orange Bowl. None of them knew that an aging transformer nearly overloaded while feeding power to the stadium, triggering voltage alerts that gave new meaning to the phrase red zone. Thanks to high-tech equipment installed through a $200 million smart-grid grant to Florida Power & Light, transformers that used to be checked manually once a year were being monitored electronically every second. The new equipment detected the problem and diverted power elsewhere.explained , we do know that smart grids can prevent blackouts: "And that's no small thing. Blackouts, after all, have become frustratingly common across the country. Between 2005 and 2009, there were 349 power outages in the United States that affected at least 50,000 people. That's up from just 149 outages between 2000 and 2004, according to Massoud Amin of the University of Minnesota. Problems with the power grid now cost the economy some $150 billion per year."Typical liberal bullshit. Benen, as usual, is lying like hell. We DO know what caused it.I would also point out that the Superdome is supposedly a picture of modern energy technology.
