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Originally posted by Jerrek
We can have major storms that will take out power to 1 maybe 2 villages (usually by bringing down overhead power lines)
Same here.
we have never had a crisis that has resulted in such a catastrophic loss of power. Except when there was the major strikes in the 70's i think.
Same here except for last week.
The emergency backups within the UK national grid allow and compensate for powerstations, substation etc to go offline or explode or whatever and the result is usually a slight flicker in the lights in a house.
Same thing here.
There are backups to absorb major spikes that in efect should prevent a situation like the one in the US occuring.
Same thing here.
Had a system such as this been in place in the US then the power cuts affecting the million and millions of people would not have happened.
Wrong. There is always a change that there will go something wrong with the backup systems. And that is what happened.
Thats why the US system is flawed, it has failed and that in itself is the proof.
Didn't you just say you had something in the 70s? Does that mean your system is flawed?
Come on, you need to do better than that. That isn't a way to support your position. You'll get laughed out of debate class.
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Thats all fine and well, but the system failed, therefor it is flawed.
one of the guys running the national grid in the US said the system was somehting from the third world, what more proof do you need?
And to confirm the "strikes" wer eindeed industrial action, in what I think was called the summer of discontent.