[107552] in Cypherpunks
Re: y2k power grid paranoia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond D. Mereniuk)
Sat Jan 16 19:31:21 1999
From: "Raymond D. Mereniuk" <Raymond@fbn.bc.ca>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:43:39 -0800
Reply-To: "Raymond D. Mereniuk" <Raymond@fbn.bc.ca>
forwarded message from "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
>The power plants along the pipeline may not be able to
>operate because of Y2K, creating another danger. If the
>pipe freezes it could burst. To avoid a dangerous
>situation in the winter, the pipeline may be shut down
>before the Year 2000 even begins.
Only two substances expand when they enter their solid state, water
and sulphur. Alaskan crude is a very sweet (no sulphur) crude. If it
contained significate H2O it would be removed at the well head.
The compounds that make up what we call crude oil would continue
to shrink as temperature decreases.
>"It takes a mile-long train per day to feed a coal fired
>power plant," the officer explained. "If the train system
>goes down, forget it. The trains are going to work, but
>you won't be able to track anything.
Most railways run on electrical signaling with no reference to the
date. British Rail was recently declared functionally immune to the
Y2K bug, its systems are so old there is no date awareness.
A lot of large manufacturing operations, like refineries, use process
control technology. A lot of this technology is not date aware. This
would be true for operations which traditionally run 24x7x52, there
was never any reason to consider the date as every day was the
same.
I guess I should have read the title first, "y2k power grid paranoia",
and paranoia it is.
Virtually
Raymond D. Mereniuk
Raymond@fbn.bc.ca
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