[Alberta's Child]

The author of this article is a jackass.

The state of New York has sufficient capacity to meet the demand for power even in a 100-degree heat wave. This blackout was NOT caused by a lack of generating capacity.

This dumb sh!t can't even tell the difference between a local blackout caused by a lack of power and a catastrophic failure across an entire energy grid.

[rockinonritalin]

Press conference just recently with officials from Niagara Mohawk in Syracuse... Indicated that power facilities properly took themselves offline to avoid damage. I don't think this blackout was a result of lack of power generating facilities.

[Mike4Freedom]

The value of history. Those of us old enough remember multiple wide spread power failures in the past. This one looks just like November 1965. That one was caused by a mis-set overload relay in the Niagara region that caused a cascade of true overloads all over the grid. It took about 12 or so hours to restart NYC, as I remember.

Many individual generators ran away up to 4 times normal frequency when they lost their electrical load. I hope this time there was quicker response in blowing the steam pressure.

The worst part of this is being old enough to remember that blackout and hearing all the idiots on television talking about terrorism as if this was not a normal type of failure with precedent.