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Twilight
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 Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject: Re: Union: Overloaded grid ready to ‘pop’: Warns of blackout |
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| That's the most rubbish website design I have ever seen in my life. |
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Fiddlerdave
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:26 pm Post subject: Re: Union: Overloaded grid ready to ‘pop’: Warns of blackout |
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| Replace that little building by the burning transormers and the dirt around it (pictured on the Khou site) with a townhouse complex and you have an idea of a new development that went up by me here in Orange County, CA. I swear, you could lean out a window and touch the high power lines lines with a broomstick. I was astounded a residential building (several stories) went in there, and even more astounded anyone would buy them (but they will). Too close to power |
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Twilight
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: Union: Overloaded grid ready to ‘pop’: Warns of blackout |
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| Fiddlerdave wrote: | | Replace that little building by the burning transormers and the dirt around it (pictured on the Khou site) with a townhouse complex and you have an idea of a new development that went up by me here in Orange County, CA. I swear, you could lean out a window and touch the high power lines lines with a broomstick. I was astounded a residential building (several stories) went in there, and even more astounded anyone would buy them (but they will). Too close to power |
That would be the relay room. Not a good idea building anything residential so close - here's a video of a transformer failure in Florida. Link to video and a link to discussion.
In the worst case scenario, you could have up to a hundred tonnes of oil ready to vent under pressure. |
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gnm
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject: Re: Union: Overloaded grid ready to ‘pop’: Warns of blackout |
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Hey, if you're that close just build yourself a big ass coil and harvest the EM flux off the line. FREE POWER!
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Twilight
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject: Re: Union: Overloaded grid ready to ‘pop’: Warns of blackout |
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| gnm wrote: | Hey, if you're that close just build yourself a big ass coil and harvest the EM flux off the line. FREE POWER!
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I have heard of someone getting busted for that. |
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killJOY
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject: Re: Union: Overloaded grid ready to ‘pop’: Warns of blackout |
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Fiddlerdave
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject: Re: Union: Overloaded grid ready to ‘pop’: Warns of blackout |
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| gnm wrote: | | Hey, if you're that close just build yourself a big ass coil and harvest the EM flux off the line. FREE POWER!-G |
Given they have built something like 5000 housing units in the area in the last year, I wonder just how over-capacity those transformers may be. Hey! I could market some flagpoles to put outside their units which contain a coil through the pole length that have an outlet on the end to run into their units. The area could be amazed at the patriotism of the residents of that building. And how they keep their bright lights on all the time. |
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 1:35 am Post subject: Re: Union: Overloaded grid ready to ‘pop’: Warns of blackout |
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| Twilight wrote: | | This is why I call bullshit on mass ownership of electric cars. |
If you thought replacing the Lithium Ion batteries in an iPod was expensive try this! 
FYI - Li-ion batteries tend to "degrade" with age. Basically it has a "limited shelf life" even if you don't use it. This is why when you buy Li-ion batteries you should look to see the date of manufacture and get the newest ones possible....and of course only buy when you need it. Capacity loss is about 20% per year! link
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Twilight
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: Union: Overloaded grid ready to ‘pop’: Warns of blackout |
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It's true. Back in 1998 or so, I bought a phone with a Lithium Ion battery that lasted a week at full charge. In 2005, I finally junked it as a full charge lasted only two days. I'm detecting the same pattern with a phone I have had just over a year. I think it has lost a day or two.
This is not a viable solution. |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: Cameroon police kill students in blackout protest |
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Two young people are dead in Cameroon, killed by police for protesting against blackouts imposed by U.S. based energy corporation AES whose motto is “the power of being global” and has Carlyle Group connections on its board. It’s also the company that, when it suits its bottom line, decides to starve its less profitable subsidiaries of resources and shuts down its power facilities.
After two weeks of darkness the people of Kumba rebelled, burning down the AES offices. They got their power back, but they lost two students. AES will survive.
| Quote: | Police in Cameroon shot dead two students during a protest triggered by days of power blackouts in the western town of Kumba, state radio and a senior local official said on Monday.
The police officers opened fire as they were pelted with stones and Molotov cocktails during the demonstration on Saturday, hitting two students in the head and killing them instantly. Another five were injured, one of them seriously. |
Source: Reuters via GNN |
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Ferretlover
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject: Re: THE Blackout/Brownout Thread |
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| Quote: | East Coast endures fourth day of heat wave
2 heat-related deaths and 50,000 lose power in upstate New York
NEW YORK - The East Coast on Tuesday was trying to get through a fourth, and hopefully final, straight day of broiling temperatures during a heat wave that has caused some early school dismissals and power outages. … |
NY Blackout
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject: Re: THE Blackout/Brownout Thread |
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I'm on the East Coast and we've had four days of temps over 100 degrees. Yesterday, it was 102, which shattered all previous records for all of June. This is very odd to have this oppressive heat and it's even more odd to have it so early in the season.
Today, I got in my car and the dash thermometer read 118 degrees. I have never seen it go that high - ever.
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