Re: [Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage

2008-02-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mike Carrell wrote: Jed, you got this wrong. The power outage was caused by a fault at a substation, which disturbed the network and pieces of it disconnected to prevent damage to eqluipment. . . . The nuclear plant *did not cause the shutdown*. Yup. Later reports confirm that. Here's one:

Re: [Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage

2008-02-27 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jed, One of the 20 worse polluting USA coal fired electric power plants, The FPP plant ,Fayette county Texas has a problem. Seems their effort in finally getting the scrubber installed ( a little oversight when constructing it some 40 years ago...) hmmm. the concrete foundation for

Re: [Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage

2008-02-27 Thread leaking pen
if this were true, if there would be a shortage due to time taken to make a safer cleaner plant, well, then we need a shortage! On 2/27/08, R C Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy Jed, One of the 20 worse polluting USA coal fired electric power plants, The FPP plant ,Fayette county Texas

Re: [Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage

2008-02-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
R C Macaulay wrote: Not to be outdone.. as no Texas power producer can .. the Houston ship channel industries old Reliant power plant, one of 4 fallen into bankruptcy because of rising fuel costs and too broke to install pollution equipment, was resurrected from the dead and sold for 450m

[Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage

2008-02-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
This is unusual. These things are highly reliable. Nuclear Plant Shutdown Causes Massive Florida Power Outages February 26, 2008: 05:23 PM EST MIAMI (AP)--A problem with the electrical grid in Florida caused power outages stretching from Miami up almost to Jacksonville that affected as many

Re: [Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage

2008-02-26 Thread Mike Carrell
there may be coordinated distributed generators, but that is decades away. Mike Carrell - Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 6:21 PM Subject: [Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage This is unusual