[_Jim]

if power is out it's pretty easy to radio-locate ...

How exactly does this relate to getting rotating machinery (like LARGE generators usually powered by coal or oil-fired boilers) 'turning' again?

[DoorGunner]

I THINK he meant that in a power outage certain places will have a small generator, which comes on automatically.

In a place like Iraq, one might imagine that these places would include: hospitals; power, water, and wastewater utilities; communication facilities; Military posts (including C&C); and, Homes of the Rich and Famous (including Presidential Palaces, and their attached underground bunkers, tunnels, etc.)

IOW, a power outage might be an excellent opportunity to locate, say, a bunker with life support systems operating? Maybe pull the plug on Saddam's underground ICU?

But, he may have meant something else.

DG

[bvw]

I meant that you can scan a blacked-out area with, for example, a voice-coil, and pick up the 50 hertz hum from generators, motors, and unshielded power wiring some "secert bunker".