Talk:Power outage

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Stromleitung = powerline --Head 22:53, Aug 14, 2003 (UTC)

The power outage cited for "10 November 1965" included more than New York. Usually referred to as the "Northeast Blackout", it included nine states and two Canadian provinces. I believe it was finally traced to a faulty relay at the Sir Adam Beck power station at Niagara Falls. StinKerr 23:38, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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[edit] reasons for cascading failure

From the article: Under certain conditions, a network component shutting down can cause current fluctuations in neighboring segments of the network.

May someone explain the reason for such events more precisely? Thanks --Abdull 17:02, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Third world countries

The article says: "In most third world countries, power cuts go unnoticed by most citizens of upscale means, as maintaining an uninterruptible power supply is often considered an essential facility of a home."

Let's rewrite this sentence. It uses weasel words like "most" and "often considered" as well as the poorly defined phrase "of upscale means". And how would we verify this claim? Tonyfaull (talk) 23:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion

Power outages may also be caused by terrorism (attacking power plants or electricity pylons) in developing countries. The Shining Path movement was the first to copy this tactic from Mao Zedong.

is awkward, what's so special about being the first to copy something?

Power outages may also be caused by military or terrorist attacks (attacking power plants or electricity pylons) in developing countries. This tactic was used by Mao Zedong; the Shining Path movement was the first terrorist group to copy it.

might be a better way to say it. —Random832 14:56, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Search for power outage doesn't lead here

Is there any reason why a search for "Power Outage" links to [1] and not [2] I mean this article would be alot more useful than one about Charmed Episodes and it's alot more relevant. If someone could correct this because I'm not sure how. Vergil 577 (talk) 10:15, 28 May 2008 (UTC)