Preventing Power Grid Failure
It's been one year since a record blackout hit North America. What have we learned from it? Are blackouts preventable?
Guests:
Peter Fairley, contributing writer, Technology Review. Contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum magazine. Author of "The Unruly Power Grid," in IEEE Spectrum, August 2004
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