[Gllug] Major power cuts in North America

[Rich Walker]

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.

Worrying.

cheers, Rich.

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