Unlike the economic boost that may occur from recovery spending to restore damaged physical assets, this is a deadweight loss. Local power outages may be unavoidable, but one can create grids that are less vulnerable – and less prone to bringing large parts of the economy to a halt – by building in redundancy.
这场大断电的成本难以计算，但肯定小不了。与重建被毁有形资产的重建支出会提振经济不同，这场断电的成本属于无谓损失。当地断电或许是不可避免的，但若以充足性为原则，本可以建设不至于如此脆弱的电网——或者说不至于导致如此大范围经济陷入停滞的电网。