Can we make a self-healing power grid as a control system for aircraft that fail in flight?

How do we go about building a truly intelligent grid that can repair itself and that can detect a computer virus and handle a cascading power outage? In 2005, when the power grid failed in the Northeast, it apparently worked fine and started shutting down the entire system. Well, if that’s the response of an engineer to protect the power grid, then “Houston, oh, we’ve got a problem.” Okay, let’s put a philosophical perspective on this because obviously we need a better and smarter system.

Does that mean we need a so-called “smart grid”? Well, I’m concerned about all of this because if power is allowed to flow both ways, along with real-time energy usage information in every home, then we’ve immediately opened ourselves up to more places to insert computer viruses or computer worms. In this day and age of Stuxnet, we can’t be too careful. In fact, in this case, how “smart” would our network really be?

Now we have systems that can take control during catastrophic failures, one such brilliant system is now running on our military drones where it takes control and can autonomously fly a plane even if half the wing has flown . However, when it comes to the power grid, well, this is different than a plane losing a wing in a catastrophic failure and using an AI system to adjust control surfaces in real time to land the plane without crashing. .

SmartGrid is a bi-directional system, unlimited supply inputs and outputs due to the distributive power theory it uses and the main power plants, many of which are unreliable. Instead of using alternative but unreliable energy like wind, just get rid of unreliable power schemes, stop funding garbage with taxpayer money and use reliable and abundant energy, then you don’t need the AI ​​system in the first place . It’s a chicken vs. egg thing, see?

Now, those who work on smart grid schemes are really smart people and have a great concept, but maybe they are not considering all the angles of this, they may have altruistic ways of reasoning, but in the end they are still human, fallible. , and not one with perfection.

Having an AI system to instantly fix problems in our power grid, like a robust immune system to attack a problem like in the human biosystem, is smart, but it can also be used against itself in the case of a (computer) . ) virus. See that point. Still, we need a very strong airframe, first and foremost for our power infrastructure, we need that strong foundation, then we need to build systems that allow it to protect itself. Please consider all this.