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Post by Atheist-Lite » Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:08 am

Anyone effected by this online? :smoke:
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Re: US Blackout

Post by Schneibster » Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:44 am

Not me, and I'm a few hundred miles north of LA. I think it's only San Diego and points East (Aridzona, apparently).
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Post by Cormac » Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:55 am

What the fuck is going on with power generation and distribution in the USA?
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Re: US Blackout

Post by Atheist-Lite » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:00 am

Cormac wrote:What the fuck is going on with power generation and distribution in the USA?
According to the Oldavai theory the lights will go out before the new stone age begins. Electricity production/distribution is highly complex, requires constant investment, constant maintenance and is always fragile. :smoke:

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Post by Schneibster » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:13 am

Cormac wrote:What the fuck is going on with power generation and distribution in the USA?
Enron gamed the system to rip off California and now everybody's scared to invest in transmission lines for fear somebody else figures out how to game things some other way. Because the idiot Republicans keep deregulating everything, and making more holes for people to game. Shitting in their own nest (which unfortunately happens to be ours too).

Isn't that a fucking great problem to be having while we're trying to set up wind and solar power? Nobody wants to invest in transmission lines. Fucking awesome. We really are going to kill ourselves off one time with one of these stupid shortsighted greedy pieces of shit.
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Re: US Blackout

Post by Tigger » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:14 am

Jesus Christ on a stick.
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Post by Schneibster » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:19 am

You begin to see where the problem is coming from over here, I think.

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Re: US Blackout

Post by Atheist-Lite » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:22 am

Schneibster wrote:You begin to see where the problem is coming from over here, I think.

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Post by JimC » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:24 am

That reminds me, I must stock up on candles...
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:29 am

I ain't paying for no-one else's stinking power line.

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Post by JimC » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:34 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:I ain't paying for no-one else's stinking power line.

Sorry, just came over all libertarian...
There's pills you can take for that... :console:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:35 am

JimC wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I ain't paying for no-one else's stinking power line.

Sorry, just came over all libertarian...
There's pills you can take for that... :console:
I may have to have a lie down
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Re: US Blackout

Post by klr » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:38 am

Tigger wrote:Jesus Christ on a stick.
I couldn't find a Jesus USB pen drive, but here's the next best thing:

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Re: US Blackout

Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:40 am

klr wrote:
Tigger wrote:Jesus Christ on a stick.
I couldn't find a Jesus USB pen drive, but here's the next best thing:

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[/derail] :pardon:
A virgin Mary USB? You don't even have to plug it in to get data on it....immaculate downloading.
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Re: US Blackout

Post by JimC » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:43 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:
klr wrote:
Tigger wrote:Jesus Christ on a stick.
I couldn't find a Jesus USB pen drive, but here's the next best thing:

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[/derail] :pardon:
A virgin Mary USB? You don't even have to plug it in to get data on it....immaculate downloading.
Actually, the moment you plug it in it's no longer a virgin... :tea:
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