Massive Power Outage - Page 7

Baron Grazic · #61 August 20th, 2003, 01:34 AM

The Australian media have reported 3 different causes to the black-out.
1 - Lightening - which I think they have now ruled out.
2 - An old overgrown tree snagged a main powerlines that was sagging, which caused a cascading effect tripping the safety switches.
3 - My favourite. A yet unknown terrorist group brain washed a squad of squirrels into making a suicide runs onto the major power lines.

minipol · #62 August 20th, 2003, 01:40 AM

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Originally posted by Erax:
- My wife drinks coffee around the clock. She had an electric percolator which she kept on all day to keep the coffe warm. Doing it the old way - heating water on the gas stove and putting the coffee in a thermos bottle - saved us 130 kWh/month.

Woooww. I'm impressed. If your wife drinks coffee around the clock, isn't she hyped all the time?

Krsqk · #63 August 20th, 2003, 02:01 AM

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
The people in Ohio are now saying that there was a severe current flux prior to the circuit trip they suffered. According to them, it occurred repeatedly for several hours prior to the event. And they are again pointing the finger to the north. They way these guys cover their tails, they must have been politicians in their Last jobs.

Politics happens in more jobs than just government--and it seems more vicious the smaller the stakes, actually.

tesco samoa · #64 August 20th, 2003, 03:00 AM

200 kwh per month.

I think i could do it. Barely though. I average 15 kwh per day right now.

rextorres · #65 August 20th, 2003, 03:53 AM

Maybe the U.S. should consider invading itself.

The billions spent fixing Iraq's power and water infrastructure would fix the U.S.' problems.

[ August 20, 2003, 02:57: Message edited by: rextorres ]

Fyron · #66 August 20th, 2003, 04:29 AM

I dunno... one civil war was plenty IMO.

E3 · #67 August 20th, 2003, 05:01 PM

heh.. Canada could use a civil war.

I mean, we have had one.

It was a bar room brawl in which the only person arrested was an american mercenery who showed up late.

Gotta love Canadians.

Baron Munchausen · #68 August 20th, 2003, 06:28 PM

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Originally posted by rextorres:
Maybe the U.S. should consider invading itself.

The billions spent fixing Iraq's power and water infrastructure would fix the U.S.' problems.

Others have noticed the discrepancy between foreign aid and supporting the home front. There have been some remote counties and townships, like the Key Islands in Florida, that have 'declared independence' and fired some shots in the air, then immediately surrendered and requested reconstruction aid. Then there was that West Virginia community that requested foreign aid from the Soviet Union to fix a bridge in the 1980s...

The price of ONE aircraft carrier battlegroup ($80 billion over it's full life time of operation & maintenance) would just about cover all of the bridge repairs we need in this country, for example.

Erax · #69 August 20th, 2003, 07:15 PM

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200 kwh per month. I think i could do it. Barely though. I average 15 kwh per day right now.

Energy usage is quite different from country to country, depending on whether you use electricity for cooking, heating, A/C or water heating. For Brazil, it's a very reasonable value, I'd even say generous - we don't need heating, most houses don't have A/C and we use gas for cooking.

Loser · #70 August 20th, 2003, 08:51 PM

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Originally posted by E3:
heh.. Canada could use a civil war.

I mean, we have had one.

It was a bar room brawl in which the only person arrested was an american mercenery who showed up late.

Gotta love Canadians.

This sounds specific. I'm guessing it's either an inside joke or some bit of history that kids in the States missed out on. Enlighten us?