[Lowfer] Power Outages

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:12:20 -0400

>>"such a noise you've never heard!"

My nominee for the understatement of the year!

You have not lived until you have heard a 1.2 BILLION watt reactor scram. It
competes with rocket launches.

Mike
wa1ptc

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 10:01 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Power Outages
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> At 03:47 PM 08/18/2003, [email protected] wrote:
> >Maybe some on the
> > > list
> > > are power industry savvy and could answer.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >the problem wit the plants is when something producing lots of energy all
> >of a sudden
> >having no place for that to go. Yep it is just electricity but the
> >coal/gas/nuke
> >is putting out the power and something has to happen to lessen that. You
> >can scram a nuke
> >but how do you control a coal plant  " Henry close the damper " Or "Tilly
> >Bolt the door " HAR
>
> What you do is release the super heated steam that turns the turbines
> (that turn the generators)
> If you look close at some power generating stations you will see many
> vertical pipes
> coming out of the roof, all with slant-cut openings.
>
> In emergency shutdowns, the volatile steam is switched to the
> roof pipes and
> "such a noise you've never heard!"     The reason for the slant cut pipe
> openings
> is to eliminate (as much as possible) audio resonances.
>
>
> w8au   (ret. First Energy)
>
>
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