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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by NickNameNick on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:58PM (#15911918)
Sort of. When generation is unable to keep up with demand, and the generators can't maintain frequency keeping, the grid can go into load-shedding mode. Progressively disconnecting consumer sections until the generators can keep up. The segments that have hospitals will tend to be the last to go.
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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by SilasX on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:59PM (#15917107)
Right, but that doesn't sound like (an analog of) the proposal under discussion which would be "anyone, so long as they pay the uniform rate, gets the hospital treatment during brownouts".
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