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Thu Aug-14-03 07:46 PM
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We predicted this (cascading power failure): energy expert

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Edited on Thu Aug-14-03 07:48 PM by Wonk

We predicted this: energy expert
Last Updated Thu, 14 Aug 2003 19:41:23

BOULDER, COLORADO - Energy experts have been warning about large-scale blackouts in North America since the early eighties.

Bill Browning of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado says a report for the U.S. Pentagon in 1982 cautioned the American government about the fragility of the power grid system in North America.

"Everyone is pulling power and there's lots of big stations on the grid. All you need is one tenuous problem and it cascades throughout," Browning told CBC News Online.

Other experts agree.

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