im absurdly intrigued.

Natural gas generators are amazing but I do understand the sacrifices Tine makes for quality of life.

oh, the grid disruption is a mortal lock. Mostly cause it’s an easy mark

when I was a yute I did security for N.ational Grid substations here in the Northeast. Cameras, physical security for servers, gates to the property, access control (card readers), fence detection (is the fence being shaken tech) etc etc. All networked back to the mother ship hdqtrs. More money than god and lots of change orders and when you walk away it’s pretty much a proprietary service gig forever.


The guys at the substations were all union guys and they would tell you they were resigned but prepared for that day.

you would be surprised how crude power delivery actually is..... or maybe you wouldn’t be surprised.

California really was an eye opener and dress rehearsal

water is scarier but I am straying far into the woods now.

Flood of memories

we actually did some substations in upstate NY and other boondocks like Vermont. Trying to arrange stuff like hotels for the techs and labor. Bates Motel options that you would hear about later. 10 hour commutes. You had one shot to get it right with parts and design and maybe I only saw it once when I bid it.

I was doing multiple substations simultaneously and I sorta lost control of the details. I suffered a short circuit of my own. Labor wanted me dead. Good times.

yea power distribution is a very fickle mistress and often driven by absolute greed ( hey this substations transformer runs at 130% capacity maybe we should replace it with a bigger one?...higher up management: naaaa just run it at 140% and for 5 years longer...6 months later transformer goes up in flames and takes down half a city) or god forbid imbalances which are the curse for every power grid happen like in january 2019 in Europe or 2016 in Australia but apart from that if you dont want to buy a diesel powered genset and want to be absolutely free from the shackles of modern society build a gasifier

https://www.next-kraftwerke.com/ener...lity-frequency

..... and Tine won’t be able to drive his NIO.

I want to credit Sonatine with posting a picture of high power lines arcing in reference to additional electric car load ..... as if power distribution has any excess capacity for such things....

tell me, i visited a friend which told me porsche build a supercharger test station near his town which could charge a porsche taycan in something like 20 min or so...well it needs its own transformer and 10KV HV line to do that. Many people don´t realize that most houses electrical supply is already at capacity because it was designed some 50/60/70 years ago and could never support supercharging 2 cars at the same time while running your AC/Heat/WM/Stove/lights/Computers /Dryer concurrently