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What kind of goofs do they have to be to have their system go down in February? Yahoo says it's 77 degrees in Miami right now. You can't schedule enough generation for a 77-degree day? Schmucks.Official sponsor of the St. Louis Cardinals
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Originally posted by kah View PostWhat kind of goofs do they have to be to have their system go down in February? Yahoo says it's 77 degrees in Miami right now. You can't schedule enough generation for a 77-degree day? Schmucks.His mind is not for rent, to any god or government.
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Originally posted by moedrabowsky View PostI'm no electrician, but the story said it was a major transmission failure. Is it possible they had it scheduled but can't deliver it because of the failure?
CNN's saying four million people...I am already looking forward to the incident report they'll probably send around at work six months from now...Official sponsor of the St. Louis Cardinals
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Originally posted by kah View PostIt's possible, but you are required to run your system so that it can withstand any single event. That entails having enough reserve generation available on hand. In other words, one domino can fall but it should not set off all the other dominoes. If something like this happened you can bet that 1) they didn't have enough reserve power bought, or 2) some lying-ass generation owner sold reserve power that he couldn't actually deliver, or 3) the system in general was so heavily stressed that it could not survive the loss of a line. All of which are bad.
CNN's saying four million people...I am already looking forward to the incident report they'll probably send around at work six months from now...
We had an outage in Texas last summer, and the spokeperson for the electric company told me it was caused by a major transmission malfunction that happened while some sites were down doing scheduled maintenance. That's why I asked.
Of course, one would suspect scheduled maintenance is easy in South Florida because of the climate, whereas it has to be scheduled around peak usage seasons in other places.His mind is not for rent, to any god or government.
Pointless debate is what we do here -- lvr
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Originally posted by backstop View PostSouth Florida is completely underrated in its level of craziness.
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I am not quite sure why Florida has the nice reputation it does...Official Lounge Sponsor of Candy.
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