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Power can be critical in many ways: loose it at a meat processing plant and all production is lost too.

Reminds me of another situation where power loss was... a huge problem: http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-chemical-plant-braces-explosi...



The Fukushima meltdown was ultimately due to power loss as well. The tsunami started the ball rolling, but the simultaneous loss of power from the reactors, the backup generators, and the grid is what led to disaster.


USCSB video explaining the causes of that explosion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZmUVQMh9qM




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