[time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Lux, Jim writes:

> If you happen to own something like a steel mill running electric 
> furnaces or an aluminum refinery, so you can manipulate the load...

More scary:  Several independent studies have shown that even relatively
moderate bot-nets in the hands of somebody who knows the math of grid
stability would mean no grid stability.

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