[Gllug] Major power cuts in North America

Thu Aug 14 21:42:17 UTC 2003

On Thu 14 Aug, Rich Walker wrote:
> 
> Simon Morris <smorris at batesuk.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 21:50, Chris Bell wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >    The BBC is reporting massive unexplained power cuts throughout USA and
> > > Canada now.
> > 
> > Just pinged our servers in Manhatten and their up and OK. 
> 
> Hmm. Reminds me of the figures for power consumption:
> The US apparently uses 25% of the world's total "fuel-sourced" power
> consumption.
> 
> The US military apparently uses 6% of the world's total "fuel-sourced" power
> consumption.
> 
   Thought now to possibly be a domino effect after a transformer fire on a
hot day.


-- 
Chris Bell


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