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Environment & Energy

kristopher

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5. Well...

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 14, 2011, 10:06 PM

Dec 2011

It might be more appropriate to say that is your opinion of what the key passage is. The vulnerability is very real and and the fact that there was breakdown of the system last time is no guarantee of continued luck.

The timing is, IMO, less important than knowledge of the potential for widespread failure of the transmission system.

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