Florida hit by massive blackout...
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Florida hit by massive blackout...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/26/flo...wer/index.html
- About 4.4 million customers across South Florida affected, utility says
- No immediate concern that terrorism behind outage, officials say
- Outage occurs after rainstorms, but cause of outage not immediately known
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Apparently a nuke plant shut down and left 3 million without power.
Now it's back online.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080226/...lorida_outages
Now it's back online.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080226/...lorida_outages
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From: sunny fla sometimes windy
It blew two of the power generators, Sounds like a cross phase issue someone started
up number 2 without seeing where number 1 was at!! Don't try that at home either
kids!! It will blow your box off the wall and take part of the wall with it. That's why you
don't just plug your emergency generator into your homes wiring without a disconnect!!
up number 2 without seeing where number 1 was at!! Don't try that at home either
kids!! It will blow your box off the wall and take part of the wall with it. That's why you
don't just plug your emergency generator into your homes wiring without a disconnect!!
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Actually those rolling blackouts is the very reason Florida is in trouble now. They wanted a bunch of new state of the art, clean burning Natural Gas fired powerplants, where supply could be had from several sources, to minimize interruption and price, and gaurentee supply. They forgot to build the extra capacity pipelines first.
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Originally Posted by mrxlh
Guess they couldn't get the 2 pipelines completed quick enough. Serves 'em right for not allowing drilling off the coast.
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Originally Posted by mrxlh
Actually those rolling blackouts is the very reason Florida is in trouble now. They wanted a bunch of new state of the art, clean burning Natural Gas fired powerplants, where supply could be had from several sources, to minimize interruption and price, and gaurentee supply. They forgot to build the extra capacity pipelines first.
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I'm seriously considering putting a windmill in my yard with a 100 AMP alternator charging a bank of 12 volts, and installing RV lighting in my house.
Lord knows I have enough spare alternators laying around....
Lord knows I have enough spare alternators laying around....