Well, "Prove me wrong."
Whoops.
We don't want you doing that - someone will see you and turn you in like this character ...
WHAT I find surprising is, we've got people on this board that couldn't explain how the series circuit in a flashlight works YET they will contend THEY can see scenarios where 'the grid' could be taken down ...
NEITHER have these people done their homework and studied several of of the BIG historical blackouts we have had for ANY idea on the scope of just WHAT it takes to get a REALLY BIG blackout to occur ...
'The grid' JUST like other facets involving machinery/systems (like the phone system) in our lives have TWO things working constantly in their favor: 1) man in the loop overseeing operations and planning for outages and contingencies and 2) a lot of redundancy in most circumstances that allows the system to tolerate portions of 'the grid' to fail both in terms of generation and transmission -
- with this ONE caveat; that #1 works, and it didn't back on August 14th (FirstEnergy's control facility was 'hosed up' for some reason that day and the operators NEVER made any of the required 'right moves' - like load shedding GIVEN the generation available and the lines they had to work with. It also didn't help that deferred 'right of way' tree-trimming came back to haunt them that day and took important lines out of service) ...