Gezze.... Power on the Grid... NOT OT

[Jake]

Several of the Nation's ISO's (the traffic cops for electrical energy distribution in the U.S.) have issued level II warnings for the rest of today and tomorrow.

A level II means that Maximum generation and transmission capability must be maintained in order to supply the system.

Currently, no Midwest generation is being exported anywhere else.

In our region, electricity reached a record level of 136,520 megawatts yesterday. Today looks worse.

Watch for voltage sags, and some interruptions.

The tank is nearly empty, folks. People in our service area are literally hosing transformers and doing thermo graphic analysis on 500 kV lines constantly.

Don't use the power unless you don't absolutely have to....

Jake

[Stormin Mormon]

Dear Jake, With all this heat, I'm expecting some overloads, trips, and just good old fashioned blackouts. We'll do what we can in the meantime.

[~^Johnny^~]

Uh, ....... OK. Whatever you say, Doc!

I don't absolutely have to, so I feel compelled to suck them kilopopples.

There's wonder-working power in the blood, anyway, so to hell with the grid.

Ooooooooh. Dag nabbit, wabbit!

eeeeh hehe hehe he heheh eh

Signed: El muir, F.U.D.

[~^Johnny^~]

Nice try, Chris.

Overloads only happen when a system malfunction occurs. The famous New York blackout a few years ago is an epitome.

Rather we implement (plan) rotating outages, sometimes called "rolling blackouts". This is to PREVENT overload. Overload is bad.

Our infrastructure is inadequate, thanks to the goddamned environmentalists, who had an upper hand in the decomissioning of several nuclear plants, nationwide.

Right here in Eureka, California, a local nuke plant was decomissioned and torn down, because it was "located in a siesmic zone". I call bullshit. Why'd they build it in the f****ng first place, then? Waste not, want not. Stupid democrats. Left-wing Neo-Nazis is more like it. And I think no more highly of the GOP, so forget it, you bipartisan chumps. Fuck you all!

I'm a strong centrist, and always will be. Some call us "Indepepndants". But that's wrong. Centrist isn't a party, as is Independant. There is no correlation whatsoever.

I'll probably get flamed for this. Ask me if I give a tinker's dam. The lead and mercury fumes have caused me to not be able to care less.

Pardon me, while I go vent a couple of tons of R12... 'Spensive stuff, but who cares? It's FUN!

Have at it, you fools!

[Mo Hoaner]

Actually, the statement you made about environmentalists having anything to do with Humboldt Bay NPP is completely wrong. The site is a tiny 63 MWe (for you other guys, the MWe means net plant electrical output after thermal losses - usually 2 - 3 times the thermal output in MWt is produced from the fuel, as is converted to electricity) plant that was operated commercially from 1963 to 1976. The average output of currently operating reactors ranges between 779 MWe, and 1134 MWe, so this was way below the low end of the scale for viability, and it was pretty early in the game.

PG&E shut it down in 1976 for seismic mods. Maybe there was an earthquake in the area that resulted in something happening at the plant that they were concerned about. In 1983 PG&E decided that the cost of the Seismic mods, as well as the changes in regulations that resulted from the TMI accident - probably the ERFIS requirement - as well as the really low output of the plant made it not worth retrofitting.

None of this had anything to do with the "goddamned environmentalists". If you live close to that plant, given the FACTS, you should be glad that that particular plant is in shutdown. Also, the plant has not been "torn down". It's very much still intact. Actually, the lessons learned from TMI probably averted many disasters. Number one being that there should be sensors that they use to control the reactor, and an isolated system and sensors to make sure that those primary sensors are telling the truth (that system is called ERFIS). If the operators at TMI had kept their hands in their pockets during the whole incident, that reactor would likely still be online today. BUT, the things they learned, and changes they implemented likely prevented several real disasters (widespread low-level contamination, not something like Chernobyl) from happening.

There's probably at least several other people in here that have experiences at Nuclear Plants - HVAC is a BIG thing there - you ain't one of them, so S.T.F.U!

Interesting reading material about the plant mentioned:

[~^Johnny^~]

Of course it is. It's satire.

Oh, never mind.

I gotta get back to dumping that R12. Got a few hundred pounds to go.

[~^Johnny^~]

I'm sure there are. ANd many groups I post to have local contributors. I am quite familiar with PG&E, especially in the local area.

Everything between angle brackets was satirical, and full of you-know-what, and guess what, no ho-moaner tells me to shut up, since I pay my rent! :-)

Shut up. That wasn't funny.