[lbo-talk] Power blackout in US

Kevin Robert Dean qualiall at union.org.za
Fri Aug 15 11:04:21 PDT 2003


According to this, losing just "fractions of a second" of electricty costs the US $100 billion per year....the rest of the article claims it can solve it, ect...

New Solid-State Power Switch Safeguards Electric Service

Electricity moves across miles in seconds to power manufacturing and utilities nationwide. But, for all its speed, the loss of just fractions of seconds of electric power is costing the U.S. economy $100 billion a year.

“The nation’s electric grid is operating so close to capacity that many of today’s electric load demands for fast and dynamic voltage support cannot be provided fast enough,” says Alex Huang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech.[-snip-]

Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc., http://www.vtip.org

Learn more about power electronics research at Virginia Tech at http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2002winter/power.html

There is a photo of the ETO at http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/photos/ETO.jpg (712 KB) or --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za]



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