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To: Alomex who wrote (22848)1/28/1999 1:00:00 PM
From: MeDroogies  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213173
 
Where did you ever get that idea? The grid gets fried from a surplus of electricity? I suppose it's possible, but there is a problem with that:
25% of the machines stop at the same time. That implies these 25% all use very similar technology (not likely), that the bug in 25% are all the same (not likely), and that the grid can actually get fried if it happens (I've heard it the other way around, but from what I have learned about the grids, they are better at handling surpluses than deficits).



To: Alomex who wrote (22848)1/28/1999 3:21:00 PM
From: BillHoo  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213173
 
<<The power grid gets fried by the sudden surplus of electricity.>>

Hey that's straight out of Steven King's "The Stand".

Everyone died from a virus and the survivors tried to power up the local Powerplant and something got fried because devices in the homes were either not on or they were all on.

They had to go house to house and check.

That was a great book. Mini-series was only good for looking at Molly Ringwald.

-Bill_H


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