works for me!
Posted on 09/30/2017 3:10:33 PM PDT by HarleyLady27
Puerto Rican born and raised, Colonel Michael A. Valle (”Torch”), Commander, 101st Air and Space Operations Group, and Director of the Joint Air Component Coordination Element, 1st Air Force, responsible for Hurricane Maria relief efforts, has the following comment:
…They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed.
“It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government”.. (link)
Meanwhile, amid floods and lack of power the Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz, finds a way to get propaganda T-Shirts to politicize the tragedy on very fake news CNN.
Go figure.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
If not, whack the next 10 down their organization chart...
Rinse, repeat until success is achieved...
I may be mistaken, but I was under the impression that our nuclear vessels were designed to be able to “share” the power from their reactors.
I seem to remember this was done on one of the Hawaiian Islands
works for me!
Fly over and drop a lot of flyers telling all the folks who is responsible for them not getting the aid we are supplying - bet enough tempers flare to cause the corrupt government ass-hats a bit of a problem.....
Mookabooker should be hanged in a public square.
This has zip to do with "being loyal to Trump" and everything to do with putting a man with relevant experience on the job.
I've seen shore hookups for nuke subs. The cables providing shore power are quite large.
"They aren't producing steam to drive propulsion."
Steam doesn't drive propulsion. It generates electricity. Propulsion uses electric motors.
"At no point are they drawing mega watts."
This isn't a situation in which "full load" transmission is a requirement....it is one in which ANY extra electricity provided is essential.
"Even if the sub had a design to allow drawing full power off the reactor, there would have to be a nearby land based station to convert that power to grid power.
Which is probably loaded onto one of the Navy supply vessels accompanying the subs.
But the main fact is that IT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE and proven to work. Yeah, a carrier was used and not a sub, but I doubt that makes a gigantic difference.
Typical LIB idiot commie complaining rather than doing something to solve the situation. This fool should be out there driving a truck to deliver supplies. Typical dependent commie loser. No wonder puerto rico is bankrupt and”helpless” with “leaders” such as this fool...and with pinheaded voters voting such people as their “leaders”. All losers.
1982
Hurricane Iwa.
Kauai, Hawaii
It never happened.
Proposed, but couldn't be made to happen.
We have a specific emergency situation in which electric power is needed from any and all sources that can be tapped. We are sending two nuclear submarines to provide some of that power.
ANY electricity provided by the subs is just that much more gasoline and diesel that does not have to be shipped in, or can be freed up to provide power deeper "in-country".
And obviously, the President agrees with the above, as the subs ARE being sent to Puerto Rico.
ANY electricity provided by the subs is just that much more gasoline and diesel that does not have to be shipped in, or can be freed up to provide power deeper "in-country".
And obviously, the President agrees with the above, as the subs ARE being sent to Puerto Rico.
Did you read ANY of the information from the MIT report.
POWER CAN NOT be tapped off a nuclear sub.
Not in the way you're suggesting.
Per the report:
“There are currently no US Navy ships designed specifically to provide power to the shore. They are however designed to be powered from the shore and this capability could be used to act as a power source. For example, the author’s ship, USS Key West (SSN-722), a Los Angeles class nuclear powered fast attack submarine, once received ‘shore power’ from a destroyer while moored alongside the destroyer anchored off Monaco. This allowed the labor intensive nuclear reactor plant on the submarine to be shutdown. The gas turbine generators on the destroyer require fewer watchstanders and had to run to power the destroyer’s own loads. This anecdotal evidence shows that power can be made to flow from at least one US Navy ship and conceivably could flow from most.”
“The capability to provide power can be evaluated by considering the ship as a load and assuming that whatever power it can draw, it can deliver. For USN ships smaller than carriers and amphibious ships, the unit of measure is the single shore power cable. These cables are rated to 400A at 450V 3 phase or 0.312MW assuming a unity power factor4. Submarines and surface combatant ships typically can connect up to eight cables, yielding a total of 2.5MW. For a carrier, the shore power supply must deliver 21MVA at 4160V5. Amphibious ships are presumably between these values. Without significant changes, current Navy ships could theoretically supply 2.5 to 21MW of electrical power to the shore. This again assumes generation capacity to match the ship as a load and also assumes this capacity is above that required to power the ship and its power plant.”
Yes, actually I did.
"POWER CAN NOT be tapped off a nuclear sub."
Yes, actually it can.
"Not in the way you're suggesting.
At least one set of connections exists, and that is the shore power circuits already in place. I don't know what other possibilities might exist, but obviously the Navy feels that providing power from a nuclear sub "is" possible, otherwise the subs would not be going to Puerto Rico.
What other purpose can they possibly serve???
Do you have a separate source, than the second hand reporting done above, that 2 subs were actually deployed to PR???
Or are you just relying on the claims above?
I’ve done a quick search and can’t find a mention.
IF...they weren’t actually deployed, then this discussion is moot.
Neither BB nor Drudge make any attempt nor claim to analyze the behind the scenes motivations and machinations that mark bradman takes on. While bradmans analyses are often highly plausible they are also internally biased in favor of a result that looks favorably upon his heroes, mostly Pres Trump and Trumps appointees. After awhile all of sundances predictions and explanations are basically the same. When there appears no logical explanations he attributes it to three dimensional chess.
Reportedly this man is a Teamster Union leader threatening the Puerto Rican people for passing a law recently that legalized Uber and Lift like services. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeUjUCAKWOI
Mark Levin is that you?
Just use a little critical analysis. It really isnt rocket science.
I seem to remember that at two locations in Viet Nam an old tanker ship, one at each location, was permanently moored close to shore and provided power to a nearby base.
I can’t remember where I saw them but it could have been Vung Tau for the air strip there and possibly Cam Ranh port.
Do any of you other old timers remember seeing this?
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