[11732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Backup Power Schemes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wb8foz)
Sat Aug 9 13:13:55 1997
From: wb8foz <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: scharf@bb.rc.vix.com (Jerry Scharf)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 09:06:52 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199708091634.JAA14750@bb.rc.vix.com> from "Jerry Scharf" at Aug 9, 97 09:34:07 am
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Jerry Scharf sez:
> For those of you who have never had the pleasure of working with turbines,
> they are not something you would want to be near humans who still want their
> hearing. At about .5MW load, they have a marked similarity to a jet plane
> taking off (no surprise.)
At least one Bell started using Solar Corp. turbines in CO's.
No idea if they still do. But they put them in places you'd think
they could not -- such as the top floor of downtown hi-rise, via
a hole chopped in the roof and *very* careful winching....
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