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RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Germann)
Fri Apr 4 22:38:39 2003
Reply-To: <ekgermann@cctec.com>
From: "Eric Germann" <ekgermann@cctec.com>
To: "Timo Janhunen" <timo@aci.on.ca>
Cc: "'nanog list'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 22:35:12 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Timo Janhunen
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:01 PM
> To: Bill Woodcock
> Cc: Matthew Kaufman; 'David Lesher'; 'nanog list'
> Subject: RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator
>
>
>
> > > - The gas gets cut off immediately in any fire situation, usually
> > > affecting a few city blocks at a time
> >
> >When was the last time you saw a fire that affected a few city blocks?
> >I'm sure gas would be cut off in the event of a fire of that magnitude,
> >but are you arguing that diesel delivery would continue? Trucks rolling
> >through the maelstrom? I'm not sure what your point is here.
>
> Gas being turned off usually affects a few city blocks.
>
As a volunteer FF ...
Actually, if a fire affects a few city blocks, there will be quite a few
diesel trucks rolling if its a block of any magnitude. Cummins turbo
diesels pumping 2000GPM out a ladder pipe drink a lot of diesel. Its not
uncommon at all to refuel them on the fly with courtesy of your friendly BP
delivery driver and its also fairly common to park an 1-1/2" fog stream
underneath the truck fogging the exhaust lest we burn a hole through the
pavement ...
You'd have better odds of finding a diesel truck than the gas line being on
with a large fire.
