[Gllug] Major power cuts in North America
Rich Walker
rw at shadow.org.uk
Thu Aug 14 21:24:48 UTC 2003
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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