On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 16:17:52 -0700, "Steve B" wrote:


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On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:01:18 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
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Steve B wrote:

They cancelled the marathon. Holy crap. What took them so long? Where
were all the thousands of people going to eat? Sleep? Buy gas and
essentials? To let it go so far was just a reflection of the state of
the
governments. All of them. Imbeciles.

The death toll is yet to be set. There will be death in the gas lines.
In
the looting. In the coming cold. It ain't over until it's over, and
that
is a good way off at this pace. They could have already had 2800 houses
lit
up with the 7 generators they have at Central Park for the Marathon.


How? Are they going to build a specail substaion to upconvert the
voltage? How do they isolate those 2800 homes from the grid?


Un Believable.


Yes, you are.
Isolate from the grid is simple. Pull fuses or cut wires. Upconvert
is no problem at all. connect generator to the low voltage side of one
of the transformers and it is upconverted to high voltage on the other
side, and stepped back down for the houses on the next transformer. 7
generators can connect to 7 subsegments isolated from each other and
the grid by pulling fuses (or throwing switches, depending how the
particular local grid is set up) It was done during/after the big ice
storm in eastern Ontario. Big locomotive sized deisel generators
hooked up to run entire small towns.

Mebbe you could go there and help. Wait! That could be dangerous. Better
just let them figure it out. Bet those Alabama boys are still scratching
their heads. Utah sent 16 guys to help. Haven't heard what happened to
them yet, tho. Probably won't be able to do anything electricital, but
mebbe bring in some new Mormons to the church.

Steve

Six Hydro districts up here are sending crews to New York this weekend
to get the lines back up, the trees off the lines, poles reset etc.

Guelph, Waterloo North, Kitchener Wilmot, and 3 others from the
surrounding area if my memory serves correctly.