| The power outage no doubt was the product of the continued diversion of resources and lack of investment in basic infrastructure. |
| If a power outage hit on a much larger scale, it could shut down the electronic networks that keep governments and militaries running. |
| More fundamentally, the protracted power outage demonstrated the anarchic state of the electrical power system as a whole. |
| In a momentary outage, the flywheel may eliminate the need for the batteries to take on the load at all. |
| The transmission grid has been improved since then, reducing chances of another outage. |
| The exact cause of the outage will only be determined once the power line has been fixed. |
