[90842] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Loftis)
Fri Jun 16 18:33:32 2006
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:32:40 -0600
From: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.62.0606161621540.1824@vanadium.hq.nac.net>
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--On June 16, 2006 5:24:27 PM -0400 Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net> wrote:
> But wait, there is more. Just a point of comparison -- Oyster Creek
> Nuclear Power generation plant, located here on the Jersey Shore,
> produces 636 megawatts. You'd take one-tenth of that capacity -- in a
> bulding that would sit on a 10 or 20 acre chunk of land. I put this into
> the 'unlikely' category. The substation alone to handle stepping 68
> mwatts from transmission to 480v would be probably 4 acres. And, 68
> megawatts of power at 480 volts 81,888 amps. A typicall 200,000 sq-ft
> multi-tenant office building has 1600 amps of service; this would be the
> equivalent of 50 buildings.
>
> Having fun yet?
I happen to know that a very large power line project was just finished in
that area :) (I have family that works for the company that did the job).
It's a huge amount of power that's for sure. I'm not sure what the exact
route was, nor the endpoint right now, but when I did ask him at the time
it didn't make sense....Now it might. I'll talk to him again.
