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Robatoy
 
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Default What I Got For Christmas Thread

In article .com,
wrote:

Paradise is now the site of one of the biggest power generators
around. It's a big old coal burner too.


When going to EE school, we learned about Big Alice.
1350 MW on a single shaft. ( 1,800,000 HP!!!)(Thank God we got away from
that crazy way of thinking, you'd need THREE big generators to make up
for her dropping off line. Nobody wanted to pay for that kind of
potential sitting there idling.. waiting for Alice to poop her pants.)
Alice was a cute form of Allison Chalmers (IIRC). She belonged to the
TVA.
Would that be her?