Electric Grid Experiments this Summer Could Harm Home Systems
A yearlong experiment with America's electric grid starting this summer could mess up traffic lights, security and home automation systems and some computers, as first reported by the Associated Press. "A lot of people are going to have things break and they're not going to know why," says Demetrios Matsakis, head of the time service department at the U.S. Naval Observatory, one of the official timekeeping agencies in the federal government.