Posted on 07/29/2019 5:35:38 PM PDT by John W
Con Edison, New York’s energy company, released a statement Monday about its investigation into the cause of the Manhattan power outage, which affected at least 70,000 people in on the island’s west side for about five hours along a 40-block stretch earlier this month.
“Our engineers have determined the root cause and taken steps to prevent a recurrence,” Con Edison said. “As part of our investigation, we reviewed 15 years of operating data and took equipment out of service at our 65th Street substation to conduct diagnostic testing, which allowed us to simulate the event. We identified a flawed connection between some of the sensors and protective relays at the substation. We have corrected that condition.”
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Uh huh, right.
Root cause - Trump.
I was rooting for Rats
My guess was fried jihadi.
Moose and squirrel
They’d never let the public know about this sort of stuff in NY:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
Boris and Natasha
How about rats biting into the electrical wiring and getting a lot of voltage into their bodies before frying and taking out the lights.
A whole family of them on vacation from Baltimore
queue the racis kid
I pointed out at the time that it was unlikely that the alleged “fire in a manhole” had anything to do with it. Because the system is designed to contain outages to smaller areas and that has obviously not happened, thus it was a failure in the control system.
“a flawed connection,” caused by.......??????????? Keep asking “Why?” until you no longer can.
LOL! When I was rebuilding this house, some of the lights went out. I never found the cause till weeks later, when rewiring the attic, there was a large RAT with his mouth and teeth firmly implanted in an electrical cable. He was well fried. Lucky the house did not burn down. I keep lots of poisons out now for rats.
This country is one simple hack away to back to the 1800’s.
Even worse, at least back then people knew how to cope without electricity.
The root cause evaluation and corrective action would involve inspection of other systems that use the same components or design features to see if they exhibit the same failure mechanisms. The fix would be R&R the failures there then find out why they were bad.
It would also involve a system design analysis to see if there is an inherent design deficiency in the engineering of the design or specification for the failed component.
It would also involve the training of the employees that caused or didn't detect the defect, why it escaped detection and what systemic changes would prevent recurrence.
And that, my freeper friends is how the government pays $10,000 for a toilet seat in a C-5.
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