California power crisis - technical or political?
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Posted by Atlas on August 3, 2008, 5:22 pm
Please log in for more thread options A colleague of mine was claiming that california's power crisis isn't actually due to a lack of generating capacity, but is actually political/economic in nature. Any thoughts? Thanks | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Andrew Holme on August 3, 2008, 6:31 pm
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Posted by PeterD on August 3, 2008, 6:50 pm
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>Hi everyone,
> >A colleague of mine was claiming that california's power crisis isn't >actually due to a lack of generating capacity, but is actually >political/economic in nature. Any thoughts? Thanks What power crisis? | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Robert Baer on August 3, 2008, 10:30 pm
Please log in for more thread options Atlas wrote:
> Hi everyone,
You forgot the third contributing factor..transmission line capacity.
> > A colleague of mine was claiming that california's power crisis isn't > actually due to a lack of generating capacity, but is actually > political/economic in nature. Any thoughts? Thanks Other than that, the answer is an unqualified "YES". | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Tim Wescott on August 3, 2008, 10:01 pm
Please log in for more thread options Robert Baer wrote:
> Atlas wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> >> A colleague of mine was claiming that california's power crisis isn't >> actually due to a lack of generating capacity, but is actually >> political/economic in nature. Any thoughts? Thanks > You forgot the third contributing factor..transmission line capacity.
> Other than that, the answer is an unqualified "YES". One could easily argue that decisions to build power generation and transmission equipment are entirely political and economic. So _any_ problem with the grid is political/economic. But that would be sophistry. The problem is that you folks need to harness Gerbil Power, and put generators on all those wheels in all those cages in all those little girls' bedrooms across CA. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com Do you need to implement control loops in software? "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" gives you just what it says. See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html | ||||||||||||||||
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> A colleague of mine was claiming that california's power crisis isn't
> actually due to a lack of generating capacity, but is actually
> political/economic in nature. Any thoughts? Thanks