General Bulk Electric System Dispatcher Here, AMA
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We're the best at everything. Miami-Dade certified is considered the gold standard for mold in construction, ask @Lars.
We're literally carrying the rest of you fucks on our sunburnt backs.
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The push now is to put all the lines underground, as that drastically reduces the risk of power loss during a hurricane.
But it's getting better even without that. A lot of preventative work like cutting down or trimming large trees that are too close to power lines. Hurricane Wilma in 2005 knocked out power for over 2 weeks at my house. Hurricane Irma in 2017 was only 3 days. Granted the impact was also less, but I don't see us returning to the devastation of a Hurricane Wilma unless we get a direct hit by a cat 5. Then we're fucked no matter what.
watch this and chill the fuck out you plastic sweaty
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qoymGCDYzU
Many of your outages are on the distribution system & not the transmission system. Distribution is still catching up in technology.
People like the aesthetics of underground cables but they don't transfer power nearly as well as overhead, act as giant capacitors raising voltage & will take forever to restore after a fault. In practice, cables are a nightmare.
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Ive seen Jaws 2 and can attest to this.
Sure it can stop a shark attack but you wipe out power on the western seaboard doing so.
imagine those freezers of rotting food.
I did.
What is your take on Elon Musk building that bloody great big battery for South Australia?
*edit - this thing
www.abc.net.au
Are those things “the future” or will it be some other form of energy production?
*edit - this thing
World's largest lithium-ion battery expanded by 50 per cent, SA lauds battery benefits
The world's largest lithium-ion battery is now capable of delivering 150 megawatts and could save South Australia from a statewide blackout, according to the state's energy minister.
www.abc.net.au
Are those things “the future” or will it be some other form of energy production?
Batteries are the big talk at this point in time.
IMO:
Batteries are allowed to degrade up to 7% a year & take one hell of a mining operation to produce(not really "green").
PV panels have 10-20yr lifespans(also not "green").
Frame series combustion turbines have 20-40yr lifespans.
Steam Turbines have lifespans >50yrs, same with hydro.
We're going down a path to very expensive power that will need to be replaced far more often than proven designs & we're doing it before actually vetting these technologies. IMO there's better "stopgaps" to use in the interim(like the solar thermal steam injection I mentioned earlier in the thread).
You're going to have to get rid of all the pussies. Based on what happened in February it's not looking good.
Awesome, thanks for the insight.
Knowing SFA about your industry, I was expecting something like “hydrogen” or the like as your response - based solely on where the automotive industry seems to be heading.
There's a lot of $$$$ being thrown at "green" technology right now. A huge problem is that the people who represent the government(at least at the state level) aren't the most, lets say experienced, in the industry & have already bought into the fallacy before they've even started. Those positions also don't compensate well enough for those of us in the industry to jump ship & actually work with these companies to vet them for approval.
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I'm still very triggered that a Texan of all people would say this. Fucking Texas, the state that boasts often and loudly of its inconsequential 12 and a half minutes as an independent state but then cries to DC for help when shit hits the fan just like every other state.
Fuck Texas.
That ice thing was the worst event in the history of humanity. Only Texas could have taken it on and survived.
I hope you don't mean me
Good because I don't know what the fuck he's talking about. Even tho I'm supposed to
Are you ashamed of these fucks in this thread and the quality of their questions (except for me)?
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