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Yawn! Cascade-based attack vulnerability on the US power grid

Yawn! Cascade-based attack vulnerability on the US power grid

Yawn! Cascade-based attack vulnerability on the US power grid

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Apparently some policy folks with a vested interest "just" discovered a paper written by some graduate students from the People's Republic of China (aka the PRC).

Those pesky graduate students must have PhD's in marketing...and I hope they are getting paid for talking to the news agencies because the media is buzzing over their work.

Anyway, they wrote a mundane paper on graph theory with the eye catching title of "Cascade-based attack vulnerability on the US power grid."  Yawn!  


Read it here on-line if you wish:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28704846/Cascade-Based-Attack-Vulnerability-on-the-US-Power-Grid

Sadly, nonsense like this gets policy makers wound up in a tizzy and we poor folks who actually plan, design, build, and operate the interconnected electric power system have to deal with the results.  Long sigh...

I won't even start getting into the reasons why their published work falls far short of the work's title.

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