An Engineer Reviews Gravity (and our Electric Grid)

Gravity is excellent - the story of space exploration, engineering, and the desire to survive.  The movie has the best special effects/computer animation of any space movie I have seen.

What was interesting about the movie was the theater lost power for about 20-minutes with two-minutes to go (if you have seen the movie, you know the part).  North Texas was having storms and maybe this was a source of the power outage. 

During a movie about resiliency in space, it was interesting that the unresiliency of our grids (from energy, to telecommunications, to water) hits home.  Extreme weather events in the context of our energy assets have people and organizations looking at microgrids, or distributed generation.  The grids allow regions, cities or portions of a city to operate independently of the larger power grid.  Our energy future could be some combination of microgrid, smart grid technologies, backup generators, solar, wind power, and storage that will handle bad weather and emergencies in a more resilient manner.

We need an electric grid as resilient as Dr. Ryan Stone so I can watch a movie about resiliency without power interruption.