[57366] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Fri Apr 4 19:16:35 2003
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 16:13:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@eeph.com>
Cc: "'David Lesher'" <wb8foz@nrk.com>,
"'nanog list'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <001d01c2fb07$af6cef50$0200b3cd@matthewdesk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> This means that at least one of your generators (around here) should run on
> something you store on-site. And thus, if you can only afford one, that one
> must be in that category.
Right. So if you have a choice of storing gas or diesel, and gas usually
doesn't have to be replentished by truck, since it's _usually on-tap_, but
diesel _always has to be replentished by truck_, since it's _never
on-tap_, why would one ever choose diesel unless, as per previous caveat,
clueless fire marshalls thought it was really preferable?
-Bill
