Blackouts

06 Jun 2022 09:06

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The moments when humanity confronts its own works and its aggregated actions as an objective, alien, and malign force.

To read:
• Daniel Bienstock, Electrical Transmission Systems Cascades and Vulnerability: An Operations Research Viewpoint
• Ian Dobson, Benjamin A. Carreras, Vickie E. Lynch and David E. Newman, "Complex systems analysis of series of blackouts: Cascading failure, critical points, and self-organization", Chaos 17 (2007): 026103
• David E. Nye, When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America
• Dirk Witthaut, Frank Hellmann, Jürgen Kurths, Stefan Kettemann, Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, and Marc Timme, "Collective nonlinear dynamics and self-organization in decentralized power grids", Reviews of Modern Physics 94 (2022): 015005