If only Benjamin could see this…
![room-450 The Control Room](https://coffeespoons.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/room-450.jpg)
These are photographs from a small series published by CNET that focuses on a power grid control room. As one can imagine, managing the flow of electrical energy across somewhere the size of New England could be a bit…complicated. And so one can see from some kind of network map (perhaps?) on the main display. At the very least I can make no sense of it.
![wide-monitoring Voltage Map (right) and Monitor of Neighbouring Power Grid (left)](https://coffeespoons.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wide-monitoring.jpg)
On the other hand, I only wonder what would happen if Homer were sitting behind a bank of those monitors?
Photographs by Martin LaMonica, CNET