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Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain
Not only that. The problem with the pipelines is that power shut down. Think back to when half of the east coast had no power because of the powerplant that failed. We need a more reliable design for almost everything. Their is a countless number of things that can hamstring the country if they failed!
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More reliable designs exist for just about everything you can think of, really. Atleast everything that's currently out there. The problem is and always will be expense. Engineers, politicians, etc. have to decide how much protection is worth, vs. how much it will cost. The power outage could have been prevented via a massive upgrade and re-organization of the national power grid, but that would also have been incredibly expensive. Power companies are businesses too, ya know.