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To: Gandalf_The_Gray
If they shut down the electrical grid how will that affect the distribution of natural gas?

That will be a problem.

Was a time the compressors were driven by engines that burned natural gas, but that was deemed harmful to Mother Gaia, so the compressors were converted to be run by electric motors.

A few winters ago in Texas, there was a large electrical outage (I don't recall if it was the one caused by all the windmills becoming becalmed or a different one) and all of a sudden the natural gas quit flowing.

53 posted on 08/31/2013 6:29:03 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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They don’t have backup gen sets? Wow....


54 posted on 08/31/2013 6:30:53 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: DuncanWaring
A few winters ago in Texas, there was a large electrical outage (I don't recall if it was the one caused by all the windmills becoming becalmed or a different one) and all of a sudden the natural gas quit flowing.
There were several issues, including generation plants that 'quite' (had issues) when the cold hit ... natural gas issues arose with delivery/high demand issues ... the loss of generation plants forced rolling blackouts in the state, a forced 'load shedding' move. If generation can't meet load frequency drops, and eventually "under frequency relays" in the system will trip.
63 posted on 09/01/2013 7:25:36 AM PDT by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
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