To: joanil
If the whole grid collapses, they will park a Nuclear Carrier offshore NYC and 'bump start' the grid from the ship's power plant.IIRC, last time they swiped a bunch of car batteries to fire up a university (educational) generator to get a 60 Hz signal to start the sync up process...
To: null and void
That's been done with berthed liners and once with a really big diesel powered "steamroller." (I guess even the diesel ones are called steamrollers.)
648 posted on
08/14/2003 2:25:00 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: null and void
IIRC, last time they swiped a bunch of car batteries to fire up a university (educational) generator to get a 60 Hz signal to start the sync up process...You're kidding.
660 posted on
08/14/2003 2:26:26 PM PDT by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
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