[60780] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Aug 15 19:03:36 2003
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:25:14 +0200."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:59:18 -0400
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:25:14 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum said:
> It seems to me that the power guys are still living somewhere in the
> last century. Is it really impossible to absorb power spikes? We can go
> from utility to battery or the other way around in milliseconds, so it
How many kVA are *you* switching?
How many kVA are running through those big 765kv lines?
This is what a *circuit breaker* looks like at those sizes:
http://www.hhi.co.kr/english/IndustrialPowerSystem/product/highvoltage/product2-7.html
8000 amps at 765kv.
And that's just to *break* the circuit without vaporizing itself in the process.
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