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Originally Posted by Gargamel
Which may be all the time certain critical systems need to recover or drop into safe modes. But most blackouts are caused by infrastructure failures, not power plants shutting off. During the blackout on the East coast of the US in '03 (?), it was caused by a fault in the lines (generaly speaking). The power plants kept producing power, it just didn't go anywhere. All the batteries in the world wouldn't have made a difference.
Batteries are like this are designed to help with brown outs, not black outs, to buffer demand as needed.
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Yet in this case, that's what they've done.
We don't have brownouts, and the battery was built in response to an inrfastructure failure connecting us to an interstate grid (oops. We decommissioned all our power plants), and failure of local wind generators (don't generate power in windy conditions - rofl), that ultimately left the entire state with no power.
Our "intellectual superiors" were pushing this battery as a failsafe against a future recurrence..... which just won't work..... for long enough to matter.