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The Shifting Sands of Power Delivery |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Benjamin A. Carreras |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 3,001 Words, 19,402 Characters |
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It was just before midnight. I was fast asleep in my room at the Royal Kyoto hotel in Japan. The telephone rang; it was my boss. "I was calling to find out if you are okay, and to tell you that several hours ago two planes rammed into the twin towers and a third one into the Pentagon," he said. We all know the rest. It was September 11, 2001.
As I looked at the incredible images on the TV, I was confused and horrified. I worried about my family, without any particular reason, and my friends in New York, with very good reason.
Slowly, a picture was emerging. First there was a rather local event, when the planes hit the buildings. Then, a wave of disturbances propagated throughout the country. The mass transit system stopped, Wall Street was paralyzed, planes were grounded, and telepho...
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...ate Sizemore, and Jennifer Camp); Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology (grid modeling; supervision and coordination with other research to improve grid reliability)
On the Internet
Fusion facts: www.ornl.gov/fed/Fusion-Facts/fusn.htm
North American Electric Reliability Council: www.nerc.com/
Power grid research--reviewed in Nature: www.nature.com/nsu/021104/021104-15.html
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