Super Bowl Blackout Caused By Defective Protective Relay 210
New submitter wilby writes "Power company Entergy New Orleans says the Super Bowl blackout was caused by device designed to prevent power outages. A device designed to improve the Superdome electrical system reliability instead caused it to shut down dramatically during Super Bowl 47. [The company] said testing traced the source of the problem to an 'electrical relay device' it had installed in December to protect Superdome equipment in case a cable failure occurred between the company's switchgear and the stadium."
Re:Did someone lost his job? (Score:5, Funny)
That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this happen: someone is going to get fired over this... So, who got fired?
Presumably the person that receives the big end-of-year bonus when everything goes well?
Superbowl 47? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Did someone lost his job? (Score:5, Funny)
Yup, that's the way it goes in some parallel universe :)
Re:Alphas (Score:4, Funny)
Reminds me of an episode of the Syfy-channel show Alphas
Yeah, Superbowl reminds me of SyFy shows too.
Re:Did someone lost his job? (Score:3, Funny)
No, they are not detached from company performance.
If the company performs well, the bonus becomes astronomical. If it performs less well, the bonus is merely unbelievable.
To regular people, it appears to be detached from reality.
Next Year... (Score:4, Funny)
The NFL just announced that next year, the Superbowl will be played at a Motel 6, because they'll leave the lights on for you.