Electricity Apocalypse Soon?

mindriot writes "Heise's awarded online magazine Telepolis has published a nice article (English / German) discussing the ongoing series of power blackouts (after the U.S. blackout, London, Scandinavia, and other incidents, the most recent victim being Italy). 'The blackouts bare the Achilles Heel of our "information society" ,' the article states, and sees the recent events as a precursor to a possible massive on-line blackout. As society becomes more and more dependent on information and power networks, the failure of a single wire or the interruption of a satellite uplink can become a major issue and form a great vulnerability. As the article explains, market liberalization, globalization and plain ignorance could endanger our infrastructure to a very discomforting extent." Free markets cause power blackouts?

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[Anonymous Coward]

I fail it.... so fucking bad...

It's the republicans' fault

[Anonymous Coward]

conservation is the answer. We don't need any more stinkin nukuler plants, coal and oil fired plants cause global cooling, oops, global warming, and fuhgedabout drilling in pristine tundra where the animals roam...

We need to maintain the global reliance on middle east oil so we can kick around Halliburton conspiracy theories, and keep the real fuel, personal attacks and an organized trashing effort on the republicans during the election cycle, and to keep feeding the media during the off season.

What do you expect, us to go out and get real jobs?