tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5812464604153457143.post3429708131927004654..comments2023-07-07T03:26:59.305-04:00Comments on Feast and Famine: When Power Grids FailYeoman Gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155210682115989284noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5812464604153457143.post-82609225407765924032016-09-24T15:37:00.430-04:002016-09-24T15:37:00.430-04:00Am fortunate in my friends, inc. the following inp...Am fortunate in my friends, inc. the following input from a high level engineer and altnews webmaster. <br /><br />In the trader world "follow the money" often yields info. Note his last paragraph:<br /><br />"What they would like us to think in Puerto-Rico is that the overload went all the way back, cascading higher in amperage back to the main generating equipment until everything was shorted out. In a major system like P-R there are obviously many possibilities for failure, and also for intentional damage. <br /><br />Recall in California some terrorists shut down a major part of the US grid by taking shots at transformers. When you have two different voltages in a transformer with a ratio of probably 10:1 if you can link the two voltages you are able to overload some system and cause a break. Quite a few possibilities exist for total failure right up to wires burning out leading to the sort of warning that says, “stay in your car until fixed or rescued”<br /><br />"Obviously an on site investigation could give a cause and I find the photographs of the fire available on the web interesting as the fire covers a few hundred square feet at ground level with some flames running up vertical structures. If maintenance has been compromised, and they admit it was could that fire have been burning transformer oil? It should NOT have been there but who knows? Was it PCB oil that particularly should not have been there?<br /><br />"Just to consider another possibility for the fire, P-R owes about $70 Billion to the (US) bond market and this month defaulted on $2 Billion that was due, a piddling part of the $70 Billion but which sets a marker."<br />Yeoman Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18155210682115989284noreply@blogger.com