Art Bell welcomes Stuart Rodman, a researcher who has studied the North American Electric Reliability Council's assessment of Y2K vulnerabilities in the continental power grid. Rodman explains that the real threat lies not in computers, which handle mostly billing functions, but in automated embedded chips found in voltage regulators, digital surge protectors, circuit breakers, and relay switches scattered throughout the infrastructure. Many of these mission-critical components were built… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/january-12-1999-y2k-power-grid-problems-stuart-rodman