Re: US Power Outages
At 10:15 AM 8/12/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
This morning, I read the new claim: extreme heat (presumably assisted by heat dissipated in the power line itself) cause the power cables near The Dalles (about 100 miles east of Portland, along the Columbia river) to stretch and sag, eventually shorting themselves out to trees near the ground.
The real cause was inadequate supply of nuclear power plants caused by technophobe agitation. DCF
Portland General Electric shut down a big, perfectly good nuke a couple of years ago since there was ample cheap power to replace it. So they said. bd On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote:
At 10:15 AM 8/12/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
This morning, I read the new claim: extreme heat (presumably assisted by heat dissipated in the power line itself) cause the power cables near The Dalles (about 100 miles east of Portland, along the Columbia river) to stretch and sag, eventually shorting themselves out to trees near the ground.
The real cause was inadequate supply of nuclear power plants caused by technophobe agitation.
DCF
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