From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
To: jim bell <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-08-13 00:21:41 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 08:21:41 +0800
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 08:21:41 +0800
To: jim bell <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: US Power Outages
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At 10:15 AM 8/12/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>This morning, I read the new claim: extreme heat (presumably assisted by
>heat dissipated in the power line itself) cause the power cables near The
>Dalles (about 100 miles east of Portland, along the Columbia river) to
>stretch and sag, eventually shorting themselves out to trees near the ground.
The real cause was inadequate supply of nuclear power plants caused by
technophobe agitation.
DCF
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