[32732] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: California power - its cold, its dark
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Fri Dec 8 01:27:43 2000
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 01:25:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: "Brian W." <bri@sonicboom.org>
Cc: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Brian W. wrote:
> I hear there are many plants offline also, there apparently is a system in
> place that accounts for annual environmental emissions, and some plants
> have met their annual allottment. My take is its all a plan by left wing
> environmentalist wackos to put up so many roadblocks that plants cant be
> built. I hear 2 were just approved, but there have been none built in a
> very long time, despite the population in the sun belt.
As others have said, it just makes things worse when several thousand
generators all come online. Does anyone know if a plant that has used
their annual allottment can be brought online if you reach a stage 3
emergency?
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Nathan Stratton CTO, Exario Networks, Inc.
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