How does our electrical grid work?
Aaron wrote:Electric grids are closed loops... everybody on the loop gets access to the power it carries.
Simply put, to get electricity to you, it must have an unbroken path.
The reality is more complex, but the basic principals still apply.
tarzan271 wrote:To me, electricity should be cheeper near the source.
pstarr wrote:Those near hydro will fare better because there is less transmission loss.
I am curious why people living near large hydroelectric plants will be effected if the "Dooms-Day" scenario comes about. Water will still provide electricity to those near large dams such as the Grand Coulie or Hoover right?
pstarr wrote: You are absolutely correct. Those near hydro will fare better because there is less transmission loss.
roel wrote:Richard Duncan's Olduvai says permanent black-outs will start in 2008. The reason, as per him, and he's right, lies in the fact the electricity grid is the most complex machine ever devised by man. All those regional thingies are connected. And that means that you will get a domino effect. If it had the reselience of the internet, we'd be better off longer. But alas, the grid is made from so many zillion different components from so many different time-frames, it's a miracle it still works at all. It does so because of tons of maintenance. Many parts of the system are maxed out on hot days, as we all know. And they are not easily expanded or replaced, you're talking trillions of bucks to get it all up to date.
Duncan is often called a psuedoscientist as he does not publish in reputable peer-reviewed journals, and because his research has been often quoted by some racially biased organizations and Illuminati conspiracy theorists.
roel wrote:Aaron wrote:Electric grids are closed loops... everybody on the loop gets access to the power it carries.
Simply put, to get electricity to you, it must have an unbroken path.
The reality is more complex, but the basic principals still apply.
Sorry to cut your quote a bit, Aaron. You paint a very good picture. But yes, it's more complex. Richard Duncan's Olduvai says permanent black-outs will start in 2008. The reason, as per him, and he's right, lies in the fact the electricity grid is the most complex machine ever devised by man. All those regional thingies are connected. And that means that you will get a domino effect. If it had the reselience of the internet, we'd be better off longer. But alas, the grid is made from so many zillion different components from so many different time-frames, it's a miracle it still works at all. It does so because of tons of maintenance. Many parts of the system are maxed out on hot days, as we all know. And they are not easily expanded or replaced, you're talking trillions of bucks to get it all up to date.
Now, your best bet is to get your own local power system up. And never mind the "selling back to the grid". The grid is dying. Too expensive to keep alive. Sorry.....
LinkLa Center, WA - A man who cut his way through the chain-link fence of a power station and was electrocuted Wednesday has been identified as 47-year-old Bruce Delbert Wallace
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Sheriff's deputies said Thursday that they still suspect that Wallace entered the 7,200-volt Clark Public Utilities regulator station ignoring signs that warned of its danger to steal copper wiring he planned to sell as scrap.
Officials in this region and others have reported an increase in copper theft, from power stations and utility poles, often committed by methamphetamine users.
linkMOBILE, Ala. -- Mobile police said the body of a man who was electrocuted while trying to steal copper wire was found yesterday morning by CSX railroad workers.
Police said the man was trying to steal copper wire from utility poles along railroad property in a marshy area about three miles north of the Cochrane-Africatown USA bridge.
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