Power-cuts in the States...
Thanks to Cameron from Blogdex for pointing this out - as America is hit by a massive powercut you can track New York power consumption in real-time on the New York energy market. I suppose it would be a dumb question to ask if there's anyone online in New York or in the power-cut areas across the eastern seaboard, but if there is here's something you can do: Blackout.textamerica.com is a site that's collating images from the ground sent in by MMS. All you have to do is send in images via e-mail from your phone to blackout.814@tamw.com. That's assuming - of course - that your mobile phone network is working - which is highly suspect, I believe...
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Yup. But if significant power-outages are the new indicator of political incompetence, and lead to calls for political change, it looks like were going to have conan the republican in the White House before long.
→ Posted by: James Crabtree at August 15, 2003 8:42 AM
It was kind of sad to look at that graph yesterday and see the "actual load" just plummet....
→ Posted by: joe at August 15, 2003 12:44 PM