Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100423:05:48:00
And boosting heat waves. outages of the future could last more than 24 hours. the east coast, 2015. global warming is all too real. the northeast is gripped by a blistering heat wave. high temperatures and increased demand causes transition lines to overheat, bringing power out annals across the grid. >> in a cascading failure, what happens one line trips, it causes an increase flow on the other lines. if another line flips, it causes more and more flow. so eventually you get a cascade. >> the overload ripples through the system, jumping from circuit to circuit until the entire system crashes....
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