Hey, Who Turned Off the Lights

摘要

Scenes like those described abovewere two of the many that couldhave occurred during actual poweroutages in the two largest U.S. cities.Theories abound as to why those black-outs happened during those times. Onetheory concerning the 2004 blackoutincludes a bird sitting on a power line.But that theory could not account forsimultaneous outages at the BellagioHotel in Las Vegas. Many scholarsmaintain these outages had to do morewith an overloading effect of electricityconsumption on a power grid— muchlike overuse of power in a home causesa fuse to blow.