Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by Jaguar:
I've been wondering if it's yet another Enron kind of scam where they are intentionally exploiting the situation and creating rolling blackouts even though they don't have any real need to solely to play mind games to extort more money. You know, one of those 'action/reation/solution' scams.
I'm sure it is.
If I only knew someone who worked at the California Public Utilities Commission who could tell me why I can't hear the new Cedars tracks...... [/b]
ahhh, paranoia.
well, considering that myspace is a free web site, and that it is one of the most popular webpages, it uses alot of electricity, couple that with an expected peak demand that will nearly met the state's generation capacity, myspace probably heeded the call of the governor and decreased its energy usage.
as of right now, there have been no blackouts ordered by the california iso. . .in fact, i don't think there have been any blackouts anyway in the state. . new york and st. louis, that's a different matter.
i wrote and erased a long bit about electricity markets, but i deleted it because i felt depressed that i could write so much about electricity markets and how enron was able to exploit market rules, legally, to do what they did.
edited to add- myspace is not the only webpage experiencing this problem; the california iso's web page is extremely slow today too, and they are responsible for managing the grid in california.
