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Posted by AlM on Wed Nov 18 19:55:49 2015, in response to Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Nov 18 19:04:34 2015. Selkirk's explanation sounds very plausible to me. I had forgotten that eletromechanical switches used far more power than electronic switches (gradually introduced starting around 1965), but that is certainly true. |
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