In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bill Hawkins" writes: >Please do not discredit all of my explanations by saying they >are old. The control engineer that I talked to in 2002 worked >in a 2,400 megawatt coal-fired plant built in the 70's. Many >of the US plants are that old.
The hardware may be old, but the control strategy is new. Most regulating entities have updated their modus operandi after the big blackouts we have seen in the last couple of years. In particular, most places the frequency tolerance have been increased, both in frequency and duration. Active research in this area is for the net to fall apart into self-sustaining 'cells' but nobody has even dared suggest a live test of this concept yet. But since nobody has any better ideas, they keep trying to make it look plausible somehow. The major trouble in this area is that they never get to run a live test so nobody knows what works until it (usually) is too late. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
