Posted on 08/25/2005 4:16:43 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Just heard on LA County Fire frequency that 1 hour blackouts have been instituted....not sure whats up
We drove east thru Armadillo a year and a half ago...looked like a nice town, and the Tejas Visitor's Center there was great. They directed us in the proper direction towards OKC, but we decided to spend one last night in the Lone Star State....Shamrock.
Cute town, good hotel, great food, friendly people.....but best of all, it was pretty much beyond the horrendous fog that kicked in just east of Armadillo.
Oh gee.
Thanks.
I'm gonna miss you *sniff* *sob* when I'm gone.
Glendale has a power plant, but it doesnt generate all its own power!
Your burning nuke power!
Just LOL
Are you talking of Armadillo or Amarillo??
Dont live anywhere close to them, my location is near Abilene. Just west of the huge wind farms located over the vast coal fields located over the vast oil and gas fields.
Amarillo is where more vast oil fields are located.
The Pacific DC Intertie, (PDCI) a 500-thousand volt transmission line that runsDeja vu ... shades of 1996 ...
www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jun99/grid.html
Improving Grid BehaviorMORE - see link ...The inglorious summer-of-1996 blackouts taught the West to improve emergency control and protection and to sharpen simulation techniques
The 1996 outages
All this restructuring was just getting under way in the western grid system of the United States when in July and August 1996 two large-scale power outages occurred. They were the culmination of a series of four increasingly severe failures.The reasons for the 1996 failures were many, and in some respects they may represent "a bad statistic." That year, conditions for the generation of hydro power in the Pacific Northwest were better than they had been in any year since 1976, so that power transfers to California were much greater than usual.
Still, the failures served as a wake-up call that high reliability must be maintained in the more competitive environment that was emerging. In what follows, a brief description of the summer-of-1996 failures precedes an outline of the most important lessons learned and the actions taken to reduce the risk of similar events.
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The 2 July failure
On Tuesday, 2 July, temperatures were around 38 °C in southern Idaho and Utah, and loads were very high. Also, power exports from the Pacific Northwest to California on the Pacific AC and DC interties were high (4300 MW and 2800 MW, respectively). The Pacific AC Intertie rating at the California-Oregon border is 4800 MW, and the Pacific HVDC Intertie rating is 3100 MW.
The trigger event occurred at 14:24 hours with a flashover to a tree on the Jim Brid-ger-Goshen 345-kV line. Faulty operation of a ground unit of an analog electronic relay tripped the parallel Jim Bridger-Kinport 345-kV line. The two long, series-compensated lines integrate the four-unit, 2000-MW Jim Bridger power plant in Wyoming through a transmission network with Pacific North-west load centers some 1300 km away.
I used to suffer in the heat to save the 20% in the 20/20 plan, but since I refinanced the house, I USE the AC now to stay comfortable.
They had to divert this funding to provide more free services for illegal immigrants. Hell, Mexico City has blackouts at least five times a day. At least 50% of LA's population ought to feel right at home.
Eureka was 57 today with a low of 54 last night. It could have been all the electric blankets getting turned on early...
Something going on at Area 51?
Either that, or my sister just fired up her new $15,000 stove.
I'd take that temp. it's Hot down here!
Arnold is not in a position to do anything about California, what with the state legislature under the complete control of Marxists. Sadly, like a drunkard, California will have to "hit bottom" before the Marxists are overturned and positive change can finally be made. Unfortunately, this decline and recovery will take many decades.
Because you folks along the coast pay all the taxes!
What was going on? Maybe I should read the whole thread.
Interesting spike.
I read the whole thread. Well, skipped the childing squabbling parts.
Are people still without power at 8 p.m.?
Be sure the illegals get their "fair share"
"You don't even have to listen to the weather report because it's the same 9 days out of 10. Late night and early morning low clouds, burning off around mid-day. Temps at the beach in the mid to low 70's, 80's inland."
Yup, it's a tough situation but somebody's got to endure it. If it makes you feel better about being away, tomorrow is looking pretty rough. Friday forecast from Weather Undergound:
Mostly sunny...except patchy dense fog near the coast in the morning. Visibility one quarter mile or less at times in the morning. Highs near 80 at the beaches to the mid 90s inland. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
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