The recent blackout shows how some projects never end. Sure you could say the project was over and now we’ve gone into operational/maintenance mode. Bullshit! I remember the 1965 New York blackout. How New Yorkers came together in more ways than one (there was a rash of births 9 months after the blackout). And public and industry officials said that we must make sure this doesn’t happen again.

And it didn’t…until 1977, when FLASH, NY went dark again and all news accounts talked about the looting and the horror of it all. Everyone was surprised that such a thing could happen after we made the grid failsafe a decade ago.

And so here we go again. Politicians, committees, investigations and reports will tell us how we will make the power grid reliable…again. It was safe for 12 years, then 25 years. We should be good for another 50 years anyway