The Auckland Blackouts

[ via FoRK ] Split Endz has a song, “History Repeats,” which is apropriate here. In 1998 the city of Auckland, NZ was blacked out due to corporate incompetence. On the FoRK list, we were talking about the feasiblity of using shipboard nuclear generators for supplemental power. They tried that in Auckland, and it didn’t work out.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on January 24, 2001 at 12:00 am and filed under technology. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.