power cut

[Jim Stewart ...]

is it normal to have more power cuts when you live in a shanty town with overhead power lines?...during very hot weather

[GB]

I don't know, but a large tree fell over in our garden when it was so hot.

[Jim Stewart ...]

[Jim Stewart ...]

Ill ask brian raey he lives in a shanty town ...

[Andrew]

LOndon nearly went black during the heatwave and was only saved by the Belgians helpfully providing some more electrons through an interconnect at a very 'reasonable' £10,000/MwH

Latest I have heard is that several large housing developments in the Ealing /Hounslow area cannot proceed because the grid cannot cope without an upgrade. Something to do with large numbers of data centres having been built along the M4 corridor using all the spare capacity.

I thought that with ultra-fast fibre optics the data centres could be located in cooler places with access to hydro power ?.

[Michael Chare]

They are: See

[Ian Jackson]

Data being a problem? Just wait till we all have (to have) electric cars!

[Colin Bignell]

ISTR that in 1976, some HV lines had to be taken out of service, because expansion due to the heat had cause the cables to sag so far that safety clearances were compromised.

[Paul]

I think I see where the problem is.

That rock at the bottom, that holds up the Scottish grid, isn't big enough.

Paul

[Richard]

Loss of electricitree?

[Jim Stewart ...]

[Jim Stewart ...]

thank you rod

[Jim Stewart ...]

could be that thanks

[Jim Stewart ...]

that kind of thing

[alan_m]

Or that bloke who has attached his orange extension cord to the Scottish grid is draining all the power.

[Brian Gaff]

Well I guess it often depends on how many line engineers are close by. Certainly some of the overhead power lines we see in the uk with transformers between two poles are prone to failure due to overheating or whatever. and whereas national grid do have automatic load moving, it seems often to fall over in the more rural areas where there is no nearby second supply. Brian

[Theo]

Yebbut:

The fewer milliseconds to the stock exchange, the more profit (or something like that)

Theo

[Colin Bignell]

....

There will probably be a market for coal burning steam cars soon ;-)

[Andrew]

Looks like some pikeys have stolen the wires that should be connected to those insulators

[Tim Lamb]

You need better glasses:-)

3 cables running to the line of pylons on the horizon.