Posted on 08/28/2023 2:35:06 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
(Reuters) -Hawaiian Electric's shares jumped more than 40% on Monday after the utility said its power lines in West Maui had been shut down for more than six hours before wildfires started in the area during the afternoon.
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Hawaiian Electric said on Monday that a morning fire on Aug. 8 caused by power lines that fell in high winds was subsequently reported "100% contained" and later declared "extinguished" by the Maui County Fire Department.
The utility said another afternoon fire started in the same area more than six hours after all of its power lines in West Maui had been de-energized, which could not be contained by the fire department and spread out of control toward Lahaina.
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Nothing is adding up. The truth will come out slowly and the horrific nature of this disaster will sicken people.
Sounds like they didn’t anticipate the lawsuits, and came up with this story after the lawsuits were filed.
The whole situation from the very start isn’t adding up. Something is fishy.
The magnetic field in a transformer will hold a bit of energy for a short time as the field decays. If the transformer has a load attached, like in a power distribution network, it’s a very, very short time.
There may well also be capacitors on the line to compensate (aka improve the “power factor”) for inductive loads such as electric motors (e.g., AC). These capacitors almost certainly lose their charge quite quickly on a loaded distribution network.
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